Why I'm keeping my birthday to myself
If today is your birthday, I hope you have a really good one. It is, after all, the one day in the year on which you can be made a fuss...
Employers - show us what you're made of
It’s time for workplaces to show us what they’re made of. So many of them are keen to impress on us their ‘employee first’ credentials –...
101 things to do in 2016
Over the last few months at World First, I've been putting together a global guide of things to do in 2016, and I have to say, merely...
A new meaning to the 'messy' stag do!
A while back, I wrote a blog entitled "What Stag Do Are You", I which I went through the different types of stag do - and, I suppose, hen...
5 other things that are falling down this week
Forget the award winners, the performances and Ant and Dec’s heads on a plate. The only thing anyone’s really talking about post-BRITs is...
BRITs abroad let music do the talking
Can you recall the good old, mad old days when the BRIT Awards ranged from the unpredictable to the unbelievable? Remember these…? Ginger...
No Oscar surprises this time, but look these classics that did miss out
Oscars night 2015 passed with very few surprises. As expected, Birdman - a film about a faded actor’s comeback - reigned supreme in the...
I’ll pass on Back to the Future but there’s one screen phenomenon I can no longer resist
There was programme on Radio 4 that asked well-known personalities to have a go at experiences they’d never previously tried that are...
Xmas home or abroad? Me on the Mark Forrest Show
Ever fancied spending Christmas abroad? Fantasised about having Christmas Day on the beach, in the sun, with a barbeque? Well, that's not...
First world problems maybe, but still a right pain
In terms of things going wrong, it’s hard to know where to start with the last month or so. First, let me preface this with a declaration...
