Thinking
A few months ago, at breakfast in my hotel in The Canaries, I asked the waiter: “Perdon, Senor. Tienes el pan sin gluten, para dos personas, por favor?”. (Excuse me, [...]
Speaking at the Leeds Digital Festival
If you want to laugh at me, in person, for my failed bid to be the MP of Selby and Ainsty - all powered by AI for the first time [...]
5,000 Apologies
(Written with the permission of my daughter). Until my daughter’s recent diagnosis of Coeliac disease, with the strict gluten-free diet she now observes improving her life immeasurably, for almost every [...]
Getting Colder
North Yorkshire’s sudden slide into winter destroys my mood like nothing else. Turning the heating on today - when just a few days ago it was sunbathing weather - [...]
El Dueno (the owner) and Strangeways
It’s 8pm - vino-o-clock! – here in Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife. I’m doing something most un-Spanish: dining solo. Sitting here on the veranda of a locals’ restaurant, near to [...]
Genes and dogs
Slowly, step by step, I am walking up Casterton Fell in North Yorkshire. My son is somewhere ahead of me. My wife and daughter are – surprisingly – somewhere behind. [...]
Just Your Typical First Day as a Lawyer
After years of studying, travelling and bumming around, I finally started my job as a trainee lawyer on Monday 15th August 2005. The workday went well. That evening, full [...]
Ich bin ein Berliner
I’m in Berlin. Rather, we – the family Gray - are here, in Berlin, at the end of our six-day holiday. We chose Germany because both sides of our family [...]
Post-Mortem: 99 Red Balloons
That was the month that was. I’m glad – proud! – that I stood for Parliament. Sure, finishing 11th out of 13 candidates, amassing only 99 votes, whilst spending [...]
Media Feeding Frenzy
With just a few days to go before polling day, I’ve hit a wall. Thankfully, the non-BBC media have been fair, allowing some momentum to continue The BBC bias in [...]
