August 2011, self-published Could I have been any more gutted? At the start of September, after a 16-year run, the like, totally awesome sitcom Friends finally ended its cycle on E4 and Channel 4. Teatimes at the imaginary Central Perk of my kitchen table would never be the same again. Hello? I mean, goodbye? Was […]
Read MoreThe Stage, 6th June 2011 The word ‘masterclass’ was freely bandied about the O2 immediately after Jerry Seinfeld finished his first publicised UK appearance in thirteen years. Ninety minutes of consummate stand-up will do that. Rarely smiling at even the punchlines he knew he could be most proud of, the American veteran approached set-ups and […]
Read MoreLeading Alzheimer’s charity, Alzheimer’s Research UK, asked me to go through their website to make it a clean, readable and user-friendly experience. This exercise involved both copywriting and copyediting across various topic areas. www.alzheimersresearchuk.org
Read MoreReality is Broken By Jane McGonigal Reviewed by Julian Hall Independent on Sunday 30 January 2011 Engaging with the argument that gamers are our future feels a bit like a game itself. It’s one in which I pit my wits against the California-based alternative-reality guru and academic Jane McGonigal and her characters, the Super-Empowered Hopeful […]
Read More“You can’t buy a bottle of entrepreneur juice! It’s either there or not” Almost everyone who has heard of Lord Sugar knows that he started out selling to a rag-and-bone man and found his early returns on car aerials before moving up the technological pecking order to computers. At 63, TV’s favourite entrepreneur is still […]
Read MoreRoyal Albert Hall, London Reviewed by Julian Hall The Independent Friday, 24 September 2010 A national treasure, a comedy god, the acceptable face of Richard Dawkins; whatever you wish to call Stephen Fry there’s a weight of expectation on his one-man show. Tonight, though the library salon-style set is sumptuous, the performer exhibited more sparkle […]
Read MoreAs an offshoot from my work on the TNS-BMRB website, I was commissioned to put together a report on the findings of the IIPS – The Institute for Insight in the Public Services. I attended their annual presentation of What The Citizen Wants in September 2010, an event examining the aspirations of the British public, […]
Read MoreReviewed by Julian Hall Independent on Sunday 20th June 2010 Even if you consider many accounts of middle-class drug addiction as tending towards a self-imposed mess, you’d be hard pressed not to be captivated by the prose of Bill Clegg, a fallen angel (now redeemed – not least by this book) of the New York […]
Read MoreReview for Prospect magazine’s blog section, 10th June 2010 “Customers—don’t serve them til you see the whites of their eyes, lads.” These words of wisdom came from a colleague at a bookshop where I used to work part-time, and they rang in my head last week as I faced an army of women, all heels, […]
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