Amazon's Weak Copywriting Costs Sales and Price Potential
Does anyone else agree with me that Amazon is a total fail on the copywriting front? If they actually employed someone with basic writing skills to write product descriptions with some emotional appeal, they could raise prices by 10% and sell more. They don't need to become the J Peterman catalogue, but just make an effort.
80mph OK for Brief Overtakes, Not as New Limit
There is an interesting nuanced answer to this question - which is yes and no. Average speed limits should not be raised, but it should not be an offence to travel at 80mph for brief periods - eg when overtaking...
EVs Reveal How the Energy Market Is Rigged
The Energy Market Is Rigged. And EVs Expose It | Greg Jackson & me with the great Robert Llewellyn off the telly. https://t.co/1BcdlvW9uJ via @YouTube
Supermarkets May Undercut Milk Prices to Boost Footfall, Hurting Farmers
It is perfectly possible - I have no evidence - that supermarkets chose to sell milk at below cost because people ran out of it, requiring a trip to the supermarket. Footfall driver, in other words, but a bugger for...
Influence Over Control: Leading the AI-Driven Workplace
Rapid change is underway in the workplace. How will it impact you? In September, I’ll be giving a keynote address at MHR’s World of Work 2026, a day dedicated to exploring how AI, HR, finance, psychology and leadership are reshaping business. Taking...
Proposing Paid, Self‑Driven Tube Trains Is Ridiculous
I have a better suggestion. Give tube trains very good automated safety features and then make the public pay to drive them. It would be a blast. And I'd do really good announcements.
Public Grumpiness Undermines Support for New Energy
One problem, independent of any ethical arguments. This has damaged public support for new forms of energy generation. It has made people collectively grumpy about something they should be individually excited by.
Sexist Book Covers Could Rekindle Young Men's
@robkhenderson Mildly sexist thought for the day. If we want to get young men reading again, we should make book covers look like this again. https://t.co/df1W3xhqKH
Cult Brands Hold Disproportionate Value, Yet Remain Unsold
Why can't they sell the brand to someone else? Plenty of entrpreneurs/canny marketers would love to try reviving it. And it's not as though it poses a threat to the rest of your anchovy-spread-based portfolio. Or else Fortnum & Mason...
Excited to Join Everything Electric Podcast Live with Renault
Delighted to be appearing here...... "Everything Electric Podcast LIVE in partnership with Renault" https://t.co/HfWOhU1MmX @eventbritehelp
Current Electricity Pricing Masks Alternative Energy Benefits
On top of this, we priced electricity in a way that makes it impossible for consumers to enjoy or even notice the (admittedly periodic and sometimes localised) benefits of alternative energy sources.
Sushi Tastes Better in a Bowl, Not a Plate
Sushi is a lot nicer if you eat it from a bowl than from a plate. It seems a bit odd that the people who gave us Toyota, Casio, Sony and the LED lightbulb failed to notice this for 500...
US Paper Bags: Not a TV Prop, They're Real
Before I first visited the US, I thought that the brown paper bags everyone on US TV used to carry their shopping home were a TV convention (like area code 555) - a way to avoid showing brands. Then I...
Cut Business Travel, Boost Video Calls to Save Energy
Given there is an energy crisis, why is no effort being made to reduce consumption by encouraging more use of video calls? Most business travel is performative effort, not essential.
Commuters Reject Wasteful Train Detours and Long Waits
Because it's a fucking train. That's what trains do which aircraft don't. And because 1.8m people live in Kent and 1.8m people live in Essex, none of whom want to spend 40 minutes going in the wrong direction to spend...