Education
He was educated at Keele University in England and at Yale University in the United States, where he studied under Professor Harold Bloom.
He was educated at Keele University in England and at Yale University in the United States, where he studied under Professor Harold Bloom.
His first book, About the Size of lieutenant (Pan Macmillan, 2007) championed the cause of traditional systems of measurement. His second, How to Live Dangerously (Pan Macmillan, 2008 and Street Martin"s Press, 2009) criticised the excessive concern with "Health & Safety" throughout much of the industrialised world and argued that it is necessary to embrace risk to live life to the full.