The Daily Novel

Bob Jones worked as a journalist for The Times, The Economist, Forbes Magazine in New York and The Statist. He taught management students at the Manchester and London Business Schools and journalism students at City University. He is now an Emeritus Fellow. That’s the professional history.Became a blogger on 12 August 2006. It now seems a long time ago. Writing the blog has changed me. I may change some more. But I do have some biases which I should declare.

Politics: British Social Democratic Party (now defunct). JFK Democrat. Trade unionist. Feminist. Heroes: Disraeli, Freud and Marx. Heroines: George Eliiot, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt and Shirley Williams.
Religion: Born Christian. Born again Darwinian.

Class: Born working class. Educated state school and university. Now middle class.
Academic: Arts degree but in geography which gave me some grounding in science and economics.
Sexuality: heterosexual: But who knows what urges I will get tomorrow.

Financial Disclosure. My income comes from my pensions and occasional freelance journalism.

Pet Obsession: Telling readers that they do not need to go on using the grossly inefficient keyboard layout that was invented for nineteenth century typewriters. The Dvorak layout, invented in 1934,is much better and it is in your computer. Time to retire QWERTY tells you essence of the story. To find out how to switch to Dvorak visit www.typingbytouch.

Contact Me: bob@thedailynovel.com. Please note that my xcitybob@blueyonder.co.uk email no longer works because I have moved house.