Starmer and Raynor
Within the last few hours, Keir Starmer has been elected leader of the Labour Party, with Angela Raynor elected Deputy. Starmer received 56% of the vote. As a member of [...]
Andrew Gray 2, BBC 0
Disgracefully and yet wholly unsurprisingly, on 3 February 2020, Boris Johnson’s henchmen prevented half of the attendant media hacks, who were already assembled inside Number Ten, from attending a briefing. [...]
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail
Pre-pandemic, only someone inculcated against hearing accurate news about the NHS would not know how just parlous a state is it in. Never-events are now commonplace, often leading to deaths. [...]
Captain Fantastic
The title of this blog doesn’t refer to our sick PM – no, no, no - rather it refers to a 10 out of 10 film I watched last night, [...]
What should my personal life look like post-pandemic?
Family and friends are still with us. As a family, we have grown closer. Proud to have played our bit to help society through this awful time, forging long-lasting relationships. [...]
Thank goodness that Johnson beat Corbyn
(For context, I type this blog just minutes after Johnson and Hancock have tested positive for COVID-19.) When the electorate cast their vote in December 2019, multiple factors influenced each [...]
What trends will emerge from this pandemic?
As a business owner, with all the responsibilities which go with it, I need to grasp how the world is going to change - both socially and economically - in [...]
Are You Important?
I’m not particularly important to the functioning of society, and nor are most people. But that’s OK. This confirmation was made crystal clear by the Department of Education’s recent list [...]
Lock Them Up?
It’s a criminal offence to speed, because when you speed, you are a danger to others. It is a criminal offence to have unprotected sex, as a HIV carrier, if [...]
Then The Earth Healed
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And [...]