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Essex is no longer the only way to win a UK election

Over the past decade, the Tory party (and the UK Government) has become dysfunctional and useless, turning into a national embarrassment. The Tories are alienating their key voting areas (including now Essex) and unless something drastic happens, it will mean a Labour...

High Speed 2 – Political bluff cannot fool reality.

Just in case you do not know, High Speed 2 (or HS2) is a planned UK high-speed railway line that is planned to run from the West Midlands and London. The original plan was for the line to continue further up from the West Midlands to Manchester and Leeds but these...

The UK is now a Global laughing stock

Before I start this discussion I wanted to let you know that I am not some trendy leftist or socialist. I grew up in the 80s in Essex and I was a typical Essex man. White socks, Ford Capri, West Ham supporter and most importantly a Tory voter. Where I grew up you were...

What you need to know when going freelance.

There has been a lot written about freelancing contracting or working for yourself. Some of this is very accurate and therefore useful but there is also a large amount of misleading information which does not really help. Regardless, going freelance is an important...

Does Natural Language Processing really offer business benefits?

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subset of artificial intelligence that is focused on programming computers so they can (a) understand the human language from a variety of inputs such as e-mails, instant messages, written communications, and verbal which can...

Does Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provide any real benefits?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is using a robotic software program (or bots) to imitate the processing that a human person would do on their desktop. In effect, the bot is replacing the human person. RPA bots are developed by typically a third-party RPA platform...

Is remote working causing you and your organisation issues?

Remote or hybrid working was initially triggered by COVID-19 which caused many firms to implement remote working virtually overnight.  However many firms have not returned to the previous norm of full-time office work because offices have been shut, people like...