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 [...]
Here Comes The Immigration Lawyers Organisation
Eighteen months after I first concocted the idea of the Immigration Lawyers Organisation (ILO), the new website is finally live here. What do you think? (But for my ropey health, [...]
Good Pills, Bad Pills
(Warning: another boring health post, recorded here in the hope that it might be of use to others) Of all the numerous and weird symptoms that I have endured [...]
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 [...]
Ukraine
Like many people, these last few weeks, I have been glued to the news regarding Russia’s appalling invasion of Ukraine. I have read and watched vast amounts about the conflict [...]
Harrogate District Consensus launches
It has taken me a lifetime to come to the point where I have this week (though I feel dreadful) launched www.HarrogateDistrictConsensus.org. A Tory at school, then in Labour, with [...]
