Antonym Vol.4 A 31-day-long year
A runner on Brighton seafront. Cross-posted from Antonym at Substack, where I am trying out the newsletter format. I’m not sure where it is going yet, but I’m e...
Category: Public notebook
Antony No.3: Sick Bern
This is a newsletter cross–posted from my Substack newsletter. That’s hope I know he can be beaten. Because he’s a fanatic — and a fanatic is always hiding a se...
The insurrection will be monetised.
Learn the facts, Steed-Asprey used to say, then try on the stories like clothes. — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré This email newsletter has been cr...
Review of Robert A Caro’s Working
This isn’t a review, it is a reflection, an act in keeping with the lessons shared by a master of his crafts – of writing, research and explaining power. ...
My best reads of 2020
This is cross–posted from my new Antonym Substack – an email newsletter/blog platform. I published it there as a series of five posts – but have combined them h...
Invisible bombs
This article is adapted from a letter to my team at Brilliant Noise last week. It has a special resonance on the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.&nbs...
Why you should read Machiavelli
A friend asked on Twitter: “What two books would you recommend a new people manager reads and why?” One book I recommended was The Prince, by Niccol...
Brave enough to not be busy
Sometimes we talk about being less busy as a kind of dream or a luxury. Not being overworked is not a luxury that you earn through success –it’s the key to bein...
My best reads of 2019
Writing about what I read in the past twelve months has become an annual ritual, part of the seasonal no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve when w...
The Hero
My lovely sister-in-law and her husband gave me this TLS monograph as a Christmas gift: The Hero, by Lee Child. It’s rather magnificent, so I’m post...