One Voice, Multiple Voices

On a recent trip to Lisbon, I stumbled across Fernando Pessoa, Portugal’s most famous poet, translator, publisher, literary critic and philosopher. I’m not really one for poetry, and that wasn’t what captured my imagination. It was his story which fascinated me. Apart from writing…

The best things you haven’t seen in Liverpool. Yet.

What do you recommend people do when they visit the place you live in? What do you prioritise? When you travel, do you choose to tick the ‘big’ sights off the list, or do you want to get under its skin; off the beaten track; follow the road…

Toy stories

GAMING tech agency Draw & Code is a poacher turning gamekeeper.

Wordscapes Stories

I asked the Wordscapes team what stories had impacted on them most in 2017. This is what they said.

What makes us tick?

Last year we started thinking about writing a manifesto. We’d worked on a couple of projects which hadn’t turned out as we’d expected, for one reason or another, and we were trying to work out why… what was it about them that didn’t quite sit right? Or hadn’t finished as we intended? I’m sure…

Mind the gap…

Research shows the scale of the investment gap between male- and female-led businesses, in spite of female-run businesses out-performing the market. Can the new networks, events and funds springing up address it?

Awesome Foundation clocks up £25,000 support in Liverpool

Irreverent Self Help Books

There are a huge number of self help books available on the market, too many to read to see which one really is…

01. We tell stories

Not those sort of stories. You know the ones I mean — your mum always said not to tell them, because they got others in…

The Poverty Trap?

As time goes on it is becoming harder and harder to listen to a news bulletin, scroll through social media or read a newspaper…