by Andy Dodd | Mar 3, 2015 | On My Mind, Reviews, Travel
Mobile World Congress is a trade show. As trade shows go, it’s a pretty big deal. 85,000 people come to Barcelona, wide eyed and giddy to get a whiff of the zeitgeist, and the 4G ether crackles with updates on all the gossip, rivalry, power politics and ruthless...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 28, 2015 | Extemplo
Leonard Nimoy, who has just passed away, did more than create a character. He became an archetype for an entire race and part of the human character and behaviour (ironically whilst playing a half-alien) that can be summed up in a single word: Spock. Nimoy...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 24, 2015 | On My Mind, Travel
One of my favourite sights of London, of anywhere. Always brings to mind the passage from ‘Bleak House’: “And there he sits, munching and gnawing, and looking up at the great cross on the summit of St. Paul’s Cathedral, glittering above a...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 22, 2015 | Extemplo
Very apt comment from Ha-Joon Chang on the perversity of trickle-down economics and the veneration of ‘wealth creators’. Neo-liberals like to think that lowering taxes on the rich and allowing them to keep higher profits encourages them to invest more and...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 11, 2015 | Extemplo
“I got my wife, my daughter, and I got my clothing line…” And I haven’t made a decent record in years? Not so much fighting for creativity as fighting to get on the front page for something other than his wife’s cleavage. Beck and Kanye...
