‘The greatest speech since Gettysburg Address’

Earlier this year, I learned about Jimmy Reid, the Glasgow trade union activist, and the speech he delivered on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972. When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as “the greatest speech...

Reading material

Which books would I recommend young people, parents and teachers read to understand more about the commercial internet and working life today (compared with the world that schools generally prepare kids for)? That’s a big question, obviously, and I have my...

Pail Perry

When I left De Montfort university with my without-honours media studies degree, they sent me a letter basically saying, ‘Thanks for studying there and here’s what you achieved’. And it was addressed to Pail Perry. I laughed about it – still...

New methods for old problems

Educating children on some of the endless opportunities that the internet offers is one of the key benefits of teaching inted in schools. As well as all the obvious stuff that kids already know about the internet, as they get older they’ll benefit from...

‘Push’ media vs ‘pull’ media

The internet has enabled us to watch, read and listen to what we want, where we want, when we want and how we want. Niche podcast on the bus to work, five episodes back-to-back of something on Netflix, Nick Wright’s goal for Watford at Wembley in 1999, or...