I was invited to Soho to review the new Monster recruitment app that launched last week. Sadly, I was rather unwell and could not attend but my colleague, who works in recruitment software development, attended in my stead and perhaps this was a better person to review it anyway.

‘Although the venue, Bar Chocolate, had a slightly misleading name as there didn’t appear to be any chocolate, the promise of nibbles and free beer put me in a positive frame of mind.

I will start by…

Whilst watching the England cricket and rugby teams YET AGAIN bouncing between top form and utter disaster, I was struck by an interesting theory. Generally speaking, in between bouts of sudden glory, the English sports teams tend to do one thing spectacularly well-let everybody down. We get all built up with feelings like ‘this is Henman’s year!’ ‘it’s England’s turn to win, we’ve got Rooney!’ and then boom. Rooney can’t be bothered and Henman goes out in the quarter finals AGAIN. We…

This morning, as I wandered round with my classic combo of tea and toast, I heard on the news about stadiums being taken apart and sold off in little bits after the London 2012 Olympics. Now this piqued my curiosity, as I had not exactly thought that they would keep everything (seeing how long it took them to find a good use for the 'Millennium Dome'..) but being that they keep going on about the number of permanent jobs will provide, I started to wonder how.

In 2009, Gordon Brown was…