Working out what to wear on a long haul flight is less to do with choosing clothes for a journey and more to do with trying to manage a dry, cold and often stationary cabin environment over a long period of time. A simple layering system, that has been chosen with comfort and the promotion of circulation in mind, is…

You publish something. You close the laptop. You go and make a cup of tea. And in that hour, more has been decided about whether anyone will ever read that article than anything you could possibly do in the following six months. The writing was almost the easy bit. What happens next is stranger, faster, and mostly invisible. Most people…

Before you read another word of this, consider who wrote it. Not in an existential sense – just the practical question of what category of person sits here, typing. A journalist? Almost certainly not, by any legal definition. A publisher? Possibly, in the loosest sense. A worker? That's where it gets genuinely strange, because the honest answer is: nobody has…

I’ve written a little guide detailing what you need to drive in Europe from the UK this year for a Channel Islands to Gibraltar holiday. A little word of warning – lots of websites seem to add lots of extra things you apparently need to take with you. I’ve tried to list out all of the actual documents you need…