James Black

Journalist, features writer, documentary maker, creative and internet developer. Creator of the long-running Answers To Correspondents column in the Daily Mail, also responsible for creating over 50 regular daily or weekly features seen in national newspapers and magazines over the past three decades. These include: On This Day, Millennium Countdown, Tormentations, and the NameGame.

Over 50% of the UK population have, at some time, read his words, trivia, facts, or attempted to answer his quiz questions or puzzles.

Consumer activist responsible for creating and publicising the PetrolBusters website during the UK's last major fuel crisis - a site sold to Centrica plc (who then owned the Automobile Association) as their first ever internet ‘tech’ purchase.

Author of several books, responsible for the AnsaThat experiment, and was the delight of his children when nominated ‘Web Celeb of the Week’ back in the day when that was a thing by BBC Radio One.

One of the few people to have made a film at the top of Big Ben, the bottom of the Hoover Dam, and at the side of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Enjoys visiting new places - but loves traveling between them even more.

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