The end of party politics?
Possibly. Today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor announced so many billions - or was it was trillions - of pounds of infrastructure projects that one would [...]
The politics of coronavirus: are right-wingers coronavirus sceptics?
(For context, I’m writing on the day that the international stock markets collapsed, at a similar level to the 2008 decimation, all because of COVID-19. Italy has just quarantined the [...]
My business journey
A wonderful lawyer business coach – Ann Page – helped me in my early years of my law firm. Ann interviewed me for her new book Business Skills? Don’t be [...]
4 things that I’ve learned from a few nights’ stay, courtesy of Harrogate Hospital Urology Department
Men can - yes we can! - talk about delicate health matters, but we shouldn’t have to wait for hospitalisation until we do so. It’s possible to lose a needle [...]
Corbyn, Trump and the Cult
Politically, Corbyn and Trump are of course diametrically opposite. (I backed Corbyn in the leadership election of 2015: I was swayed by his political history and the inevitable avalanche of [...]
The Genius that is Capitalism
Like it or not, capitalism is genius. And all geniuses are flawed. In my favourite - though rarely-referenced - tranche of Marxism, Marx declares that, "Crime produces locks, jails, police, [...]
The Good Old Days
It seems to me that many folks hunger for the good old days, when life was - so some people argue - better, in every conceivable way. Leaving aside the [...]
My personal statement
I want to be the best person that I can be, using all my God-given and nurture-generated, attributes, whether I am at home or at work. At home, I want [...]
Local Tory-Imposed Austerity
Conservative Councillor Skidmore, of Ripon, celebrated our council's 16.7 per cent drop in funding by telling our local paper: "Everybody is feeling the same pain, perhaps some more than others, [...]
The Lords Resistance Army
Let me entertain you with an alcohol-caused, name-dropping anecdote. A few months ago, at the Labour Regional Conference in Leeds, at an hour well past Anne Widdecombe's bedtime, I was [...]