Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I found a YouTube channel with roller coasters and my kids took turns sitting in a laundry basket’

26/06/2023 | Reform 1

Paul Kerensa takes a Youtube roller coaster

Going anywhere nice on your holidays? Some years we take more trips than others, so this is what our summer hols looked like a couple of years back, during that oh-so-brief umpteen-week period … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘One day these AI programmes might scan everything I’ve ever written and decide if I’m friend or foe’

02/06/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa takes on the bots

From text to pictures, and to moving pictures, artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. You may have ignored it until now, but you can’t ignore it for long.

If you’ve not used an AI chatbot … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘If a nice sandwich or a hairstyle are “amazing”, where do we go for what’s truly amazing?’

28/04/2023 | Reform

Chatting with my mum recently, it turns out she’s got an amazing bugbear: the word ‘amazing’. It’s overused, she said. Everywhere on television, radio and in magazines nowadays, we’re all finding everything ‘amazing’.

Soon after, a friend said he turns … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I used to think I didn’t have time for a daily walk’

24/02/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa finds he has time to walk the dog

I’ve never been one for resolutions – they’re too breakable. Now Lent’s here, with yet more chances for me to over-self-promise and under-self-deliver. (At least my resolution to invent double-hyphenated … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘My radio sitcom idea ground to a halt when I turned on Radio 4 and heard it.’

27/01/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa has a new idea, or thinks he does

Occasionally we creative types face a frustrating hurdle. An idea we’ve been lovingly developing appears out there in the world – authored by someone else. That book idea, play idea … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘The Advent calendar-makers have spotted a window of opportunity’

28/11/2022 | Reform

Paul Kerensa looks behind the Advent calendar door

Advent calendar this year? Chocolate or biblical pictures? Or gin or smellies? Oh yes, the calendar-makers have spotted a window of opportunity. Some say their days are numbered – but it looks … Read More