Pooper-Scooping
It’s 11pm, in the Autumn. On the Stray, it’s raining hard. As ever, the wind is unforgiving. The streetlights are off. Underfoot, mushed-up leaves. I’m soaking, particularly my feet. [...]
Seven Recent Observations
On the Budget from Dumb and Dumber As I highlighted in my penultimate blog, Truss is an ideologue. She doesn’t hide it. Her recent budget was a piece of work: [...]
Babysitting: In Liz we Trust?
Today, Truss took on Starmer at PMQs. Across both sides of the aisle, the atmosphere was flat. Evidently, Truss lacks the support of the majority of her MPs. Public speaking [...]
Duolingo and the Future of Geopolitics
For those who don’t know, Duolingo is an awesome app which helps you to learn a language. Each day, for the last 112 days (as Duolingo tells me), I have [...]
On BBC World Service today!
After one lengthy, in-person interview, dozens of phone calls and countless emails - to’ing and fro’ing - finally the BBC World Service programme featuring my work promoting Polis in Harrogate [...]
Can you help the BBC World Service?
Over the last few months I have had the great pleasure of liaising with an outstanding journalist who works for the BBC World Service. The journalist works on the People [...]
A Career in Law?
This is my presentation to the 6th formers at St Aidan’s and St John Fisher’s schools, Harrogate, in June 2022. (When giving a presentation, I usually write a transcript, then [...]
UFOs, Covid deaths and Poverty
Partygate, the despot-like re-writing of the Ministerial Code, Russian aggression and energy price hikes, all dominate the British news. Remember Covid? Well, Covid news has been – thankfully - consigned to the [...]
The “D” Word
This April Fool’s Day it is fitting to write that I have become….. disabled. There, I have written it. But I cannot easily say this out loud. How can I [...]
Poisoned by antibiotics?
It’s time for another dull health update. Today, my neurologist copied me into a letter which he sent to my GP. In it, he asks what types of antibiotics I [...]
