PinnedNicholas H. SimpsoninA Parent Is BornHow Switching to a Four Day Working Week Made Me a New ManLike most people, since graduating, I’d been grinding out those long five (or sometimes six) day work weeks. At the beginning of 2021, I…·5 min read·Oct 20, 2021--6--6
PinnedNicholas H. SimpsoninILLUMINATION-CuratedWhy Punks Hate Hippies And Why I Do TooGrowing up as a punk rocker in the 90s, I used to hear my favourite bands bang on about how awful the peace and love brigade were. I still…·4 min read·Sep 2, 2021--12--12
PinnedNicholas H. SimpsoninCheckmateShould You Feel Guilty About Flying?I’m heading overseas next month to visit family I haven’t seen in two years. But every day, I see images of horrific forest fires and…·5 min read·Aug 26, 2021--15--15
PinnedNicholas H. SimpsoninCheckmateYes, You Use Your Bookshelves to Humble-Brag But That’s OKWe’ve all seen Zoom interviews with people sitting in front of well-stocked bookcases. But why do so many of us like to make our book…·5 min read·Aug 24, 2021--16--16
PinnedNicholas H. SimpsoninILLUMINATIONA Spot of G-dropping, My Lord? British Attitudes to Accent and ClassBritish politician Lord Digby Jones savaged TV presenter Alex Scott over her accent this week. But was he right to criticise her or is he…·4 min read·Aug 2, 2021--5--5
Nicholas H. SimpsonPlagiarism- South Korea’s Dirty Little SecretWith a seemingly never-ending raft of plagiarism accusations running rife in the South Korean media, has the problem reached epidemic…·4 min read·Oct 10, 2022--2--2
Nicholas H. SimpsonShould You Get Rid of Your Old Tattoos?My son keeps staring at the faded, badly rendered tattoos I got when I was in my teenage years, asking me why daddy has funny drawings on…·4 min read·Feb 20, 2022----
Nicholas H. SimpsonBuy my new book, “These Things Seem Perfectly Normal to Me Now…”, available nowon Amazon in Kindle and paperback versions! Order it here:·1 min read·Feb 13, 2022----
Nicholas H. SimpsonMy Trip to the North Korean Border the Day Kim Jong-Il DiedThis is the story of my visit to the DMZ, the most fortified and dangerous land border in the world, planned for the day the despotic North…·10 min read·Feb 12, 2022--1--1
Nicholas H. SimpsonBuy Your Dream House in Spain for under $50,000. Let’s All Move to…Ever felt the need to get away from it all and escape to sunny Spain for a little fun and sangria? Well, buying that dream Spanish holiday…·4 min read·Feb 6, 2022--14--14