Posts by Angus

It’s been quite a good week for women. Conversely, it hasn’t been a particularly edifying one for men. Dominating the news this week – and likely to for weeks to come – is the grisly business of the televised Conservative Party leadership contest. A man is pitted against a woman, with every poll suggesting the woman…

It has been something of an anxiety-inducing week for those of us who live with dyscalculia. Numbers have been bandied around willy-nilly and most of them, frankly, have been baffling. It all started with Nasa. The most powerful telescope ever to have been launched into space has released images of far-flung galaxies as they were…

“Cliché-ridden, cosy and smacks of complacency”. No, not another Insight blog but the unusually forthright prose from former Olympian and thoughtful writer, Matthew Syed in this week’s Times. The object of his ire is the BBC’s TV coverage of Wimbledon. “From commentators talking over rallies to banal banter, the Corporation’s approach to one of its sporting jewels feels…

Hurley BurleyToday’s Gen Z will be blissfully unaware of the shudder the train drivers’ strike induces in us Boomers and Gen X-ers. Anyone around in the 1970’s and 80’s will be minded of the dark days of militant unions, flying pickets, punch ups and scabs. Imagine the genuine look of bewilderment you’d get today if…

Insight’s favourite fictional character Ed Reardon. is the invention of writers Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. Ed is a curmudgeonly author, who once wrote something for the telly, but is now reduced to writing grisly Christmas specials for Z list celebs.  He is unapologetically old school, particularly when it comes to the frequent mangling of correct grammar.…

There has been nothing but good news this week.  This is the tone that Insight will be adopting henceforth, given the life-enhancing revelation that optimism saves lives.  New, large-scale research by scientists at Harvard University has found an association between optimism and increased longevity. And, here’s the good bit. Being optimistic is every bit as…