Star Trek is iconic; optimistic; inspirational; moral; humanistic; ahead of its time; a product of its time; pompous; cheesy; serious; witty and subtle; obvious and unsubtle; superficial; deep. It&…

Bute is a small island in the Firth of Clyde: an easy day trip, with a ferry ride from Wemyss thrown in. There’s not a hell of a lot there, but that’s kind of the point. You go there fo…

Sometimes a TV show can be important. It can mean something. And before cable, satellite, or streaming, a TV show could be an event. The first time I saw Roots was a few years ago on DVD, decades a…

Photography has slowly and subtly improved my mindset. I may not be a beginner any more, but I still have the mindset that I can keep on trying out things new to me, and looking for inspiration fro…

City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.

After the last effort from Disney, I can’t say I was brimming with enthusiasm for the latest Star Wars film. Their output since taking over the franchise in 2012 has been a very mixed bag; a …

There’s a popular myth that every seven years, every cell in your body that can be replaced has died and been replaced; therefore every seven years you’re a new person. The truth is a b…

Morocco is a country I’ve known from films since childhood. I’m now in a stage of life where I can properly indulge my lifelong interests, and visit the real-world places that inspired …

Morocco conjures up visions of old medinas, kasbahs, and souks, and desert dunes and mountains. These are mental images of static scenery, which leave room for being surprised by the bustle of mode…

I didn’t plan to visit Morocco this year, but sometimes life comes at you fast. I’m glad I went – it more than made up for a rapid, last-minute change of plans, and I got to see p…

After a few days of driving around Cyprus – a broad but shallow look – I wanted to do a couple of narrower but deeper dives. I took the bus to Nicosia one day, and on another I walked a…

This year my winter escape was to another island: Cyprus is certainly warmer and brighter than Shetland! It was my first time driving on a Greek island since Crete a decade before. It was also the …

“Horse: Everyone can see what a horse is.” (“Koń jaki jest, każdy widzi.”)~ Nowe Ateny (the first Polish encyclopaedia, published 1746) It’s not up to me to announce w…