Stuart Boyland

Writer of Smart Copy

United Kingdom

A senior writer with nearly a decade's experience.
Talented at writing and researching all sorts.
Educated in language, literature, and law.
Reliable and motivated.

Portfolio

For Betway Group

Betway
03/09/2022
Blog: How To Bet On Horse Racing

Every one of the dozens of horse races that take place around the country each day is full of runners with their own individually-evolving odds, and betting on them can seem an intimidating prospect for the newcomer. Betway aims to make things easy – at the heart of it, it’s just a matter of picking a horse to add to your bet slip, then setting your stake. To get best value for your bet, and to experience betting on horses as the thrill it is, it helps to understand a few further basic...

Betway Internal Comms
02/01/2023
Tagline: Staff Engagement Cookery School

"Share The Grill" - the tagline for Betway's staff engagement livestreamed cookery classes - employs a pun on the company's motto "Share The Thrill".

Betway Internal Comms
02/01/2020
Tagline: Betway Information Security Department

"Stay Alert & Take Control: We Defend as a Team" - the tagline for Betway's internal Information Security Department - inspires vigilance while evoking the ethics of teamwork and the sports industry.

Other Writing

The Upcoming
08/21/2018
Stand-up shows at Ed Fringe 2018: Five of our favourites

If you enjoy laughing, then chances are you also enjoy stand-up comedy. And if that's the case, you really need be at the Edinburgh Fringe. Throughout August each year, among over 3,000 individual shows covering the entire spectrum of theatrical arts, you'll find anyone who is - or aspires to be - anyone in comedy, [...]

Carraramarble
03/06/2017
The Benefits of Quartz -

Crystallised silicon dioxide, better known as quartz, is the second most common material found in the continental crust of planet earth. Owing to its ready availability and natural qualities, quartz has been a popular choice of material used by artists and craftsmen throughout history. Everything...

Flux Magazine
11/15/2016
Leonard Cohen last album - You Want It Darker

A reflection of the lifelong quest for spiritual meaning which permeated much of Cohen's work, and which saw the Canadian Jew ordained a Zen Buddhist Monk in 1996, You Want It Darker is a tapestry of religious imagery, of demons and angels, old testament and new.

The Upcoming
12/02/2016
The Cure at Wembley Arena | Live review

Some might doubt the stadium credentials of a band so associated with angsty teenage loneliness as The Cure. Can the personal and intimate connection to fans nurtured in millions of individual bedrooms translate to a crowd comprising tens of thousands? Under Wembley Arena's cavernous roof tonight, such concerns initially seem justified.

The Upcoming
10/17/2014
Foxcatcher UK premiere: a chat with Steve Carell and Bennett Miller

The American Express Gala presentation at this year's BFI London Film Festival was Foxcatcher, a true-crime wrestling biopic from director Bennett Miller, starring Steve Carell (in heavy prosthetic makeup) as millionaire murderer John du Pont. The film has attracted rave reviews, and plaudits have been especially forthcoming for Carell's performance that marks a shift from [...]

NextUp
04/11/2018
Act Profile: Sean Hughes

There is comfort to be found in the sheer depth and variety to the body of work that the ferociously talented writer, actor, poet and stand-up left behind as his enduring legacy.

The Upcoming
02/19/2016
The War of the Worlds at the Dominion Theatre | Theatre review

Transcending the long-forgotten format of the prog rock concept LP to remain an enduring classic, Jeff Wayne's 1978 album The War of the Worlds used a bombastic blend of rock and orchestral music to invoke HG Wells's 1898 sci-fi masterpiece and create a legend all of its own.