The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood is billed as the story of “the real magic behind movie making: how the studios make their money”. It mostly succeeds, but if fails by being in thrall to...

I’ve just finished reading Admirals, by Andrew Lambert. It’s a fascinating read, making a revisionist case for the most important admirals in British history. Out go Drake, Nelson and Jellicoe. In come James II, Geoffrey Hornby and...

The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable Could there be a better time to read The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s enjoyable discourse on probability and humanity’s blindness to it? It’s a book that...

Roleplayers (and by extension, many core gamers) are a difficult breed to please. Bring out a new sequel with improved game mechanics and you’re a rapacious publisher who is only out to screw the consumer; don’t bring...