Richarddonkin.com is dedicated to my work as an independent journalist, commentator, author and public speaker. You can find my Financial Times columns on work, sailing and fishing here plus blogs covering all of these topics with links in the left-hand sidebar. Delve in to the work section and you will find close on 1,000 articles arranged under topic headings. If you would like to get in touch with me find my contact details using the 'contact' button in the top navigation bar.

Richard Donkin

New Book

My new book,

The Future of Work is published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Read about it here.

You can order it here.

 Quotes from the book.

The History of Work is published by Palgrave MacMillan.

This is a revised and newly titled edition (published in May 2010) of Blood Sweat and Tears.

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What's new in fishing

Marlin fishing in Madeira

What's new on Donkin blogs

Donkin Life: Shelley the Mevagissey oyster, Two faces of Eden, Pope's cabinet, Assault on Precinct 13......with mice,The great pond food mystery, The Dreamerz, Radio ga ga, Raising the model child.

Fishing notes: A tip for catching salmon, Mrs Donkin goes fishing, Big salmon and one that got away....again, Rod, reel and line combinations, The ghillie's Fly Box, Whirling salmon, Record Oykel salmon catch.

The Future of Work: The brave new world of employment, Job ownership back on the agenda, Working class heros, Education for the over-50s, Fat hamster, Putting in the hours.

Sailing - Cardinal points: Team Concise, A quiet day in Valencia, Minoprio new world match racing champion, Sailing in to trouble, Piracy statistics, 2009.

Rob Donkin's Flash Games

Click here to find out about Rob Donkin's latest flash games, Planet Basher II, Panda III and many more or play them on his website BadViking.com. View the games he has created here. The games are free to download.

What's new in sailing

Swallows and Amazons revisited

Sail Race Training 

Boat in a bag

Retro style boats

Olympic match racing women  

What's old in the archive

In light of the recent rampage shootings in Cumbria I thought this article might be of interest to anyone trying to understand the appeal of guns. It was first published in the Financial Times shortly after the Dunblane shootings.

Guns - to ban or not to ban

Who was the world's greatest worker? - Read this article

The Foggitt Files - a series of diary notes on weather lore written between 1988 and 1992.

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