Health Is Wealth (and Then Some)
Poor health has a way of sharpening the mind. Lying in bed - again - grounded by illness, strange thoughts emerge. Proust, Nietzsche, (Gray?) and others did their best [...]
The House of Commons Select Committee
Presenting Suffrago to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation this Tuesday was meant to be the pinnacle of my personal and professional journey. Alas, life [...]
Burden, Fortnite, and News
Suffrago work, health, chaos. That’s been my life lately. Zero complaints. This Sunday morning, at last, a moment to reflect — and blog. For many of the dozens of new [...]
Heaven Is a Place on Earth — and I Was There Yesterday
A few years ago, we bought some woods in Yorkshire. Just a few acres. I couldn’t name half the trees. Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, lying by the campfire (given that [...]
How is Your MP Performing?
In what is a UK-first, I’ve helped to launch 650 MP performance polls! What a jolly good idea, even if I do say so myself. https://www.suffrago.org/question?id=3cec8091d49e1e18f58a25b7f217dce8 The voting is all [...]
A Policeman, a (Former) Lawyer, and a Fire (no fireman)….
This week, one of my kids — along with others I’d taken away — built a fire on a beach. All innocent. All safe. All fun. Their North Face [...]
Reliably Unreliable
Becoming chronically unwell is on nobody’s bucket list. My “thing”, which I’ve endured for a few years, is, like a teenager’s mood, erratic. Despite the mayhem, I have been blessed [...]
The Sugababes, a Viking Ship, and Our Digital Footprint
Bang-average British girl band The Sugababes started in 1998 with Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena, and Keisha Buchanan (according to my research!). Over the years, Siobhán left and was replaced by [...]
Making Sandwiches and Making the Political Weather
For much of this week, my blood pressure was so low that I couldn’t think. Making a sandwich was a physical challenge, but worse, I couldn’t even work out what [...]
What Won’t Change
(Happy new year to to all my readers. Circa 250 of you get my blog sent directly to your emails, with hundreds more reading it on my site each month) [...]
