Sir Ben Ainslie, sailing supremo and Olympic medal winner – the most successful sailor in Olympic history – was quizzed on Desert Island Discs this weekend about his famous battle with Brazilian sailor Robert Scheidt in 2000.  His tactics at the time caused condemnation including from that other sporting knight legend Roger Bannister who called…

Google are famous for the intensity and rigour of their recruitment process.  It’s not easy to get a job there, and those who have done so are rightly proud of their Google-hood.   With their reputation for use of data, you would expect there to be science behind how this process works.  Well, there is. …

This May Mark Zuckerberg is turning 30. The average Facebook user is around 40.  In 1980, before Facebook creator was even a twinkle in his father’s eye, when the average Facebook user was playing happily in the school playground, an obscure academic at the University of Aston in the Midlands, wrote a very prescient book…

I watched TV for Britain on Christmas Day.  I spent hours sofa bound doing my best to improve my average hours viewed to somewhere near the UK average.   I didn’t manage to watch the all the UK’s biggest shows however.  I missed Strictly (don’t understand it at all) and the Queen.  Non-consolidated ratings showed…