March 2020

I’ve counted more than twenty major disruptive events – ‘black swans’ – over the past 20 years. That’s an average of more than one a year. Hurricanes, terror attacks, earthquakes, disease, financial meltdown, droughts and floods. Constant calamity has become normal. Such events don’t all have the same cataclysmic effect, but as 2020 shows, they […]

There’s never been a better time to be a writer and independent publisher. And since the government has confined us to home, there is no longer any reason to delay. As we seek ever more creative ways to gainfully fill our lockdown time, make a decision to get to work on your book. The upside

More than 30 million jobs may be lost as a result of the coronavirus crisis. That’s 30% up on the losses from the 2008 financial crisis. In other words, many people currently obliged to stay at home will never return to work. At the same time, many people have been obliged to work from home,

It wasn’t as if we hadn’t been warned. After SARS and MERS, bird flu and swine flu, the World Health Organisation and others, notably Bill Gates, observed that it was just a matter of time until a similar but more virulent disease defeated attempts to contain it and swept the world. Covid-19 may not be