What is Opinionomics
(Photos from the Suffrago-sponsored Conversation Cabinet podcast - main image of Kwasi Kwarteng) Every day, millions – perhaps billions – of opinions are expressed. They appear in elections, opinion polls, [...]
Shame on our Estate Agents: The “favoured South Side” of Harrogate slander
I should really name names, but I won’t. For now. I want to challenge one of the laziest and most damaging habits in Harrogate. Ever since my wife and I [...]
Empty shops, empty thinking
Each time I’m sitting at the traffic lights at the bottom of Parliament Street, with the former Rhodes Wood shop standing empty on one side and the still-empty Viper Rooms [...]
Harrogate: Station Gateway
Any first-time visitor to Harrogate walking out of the station could be forgiven for thinking they had somehow ended up in Chisinau — the capital of Moldova. Now I’ve never [...]
Keir Starmer isn’t doomed. He’s just stuck in lawyer-mode.
(The below was written for The Yorkshire Post; perhaps they will print; perhaps they won’t) Merry Christmas, Sir Keir Starmer KC. As a former solicitor, I’m used to instructing [...]
Connecting the Public to Power, Without Taking Sides
One of the realities of modern politics is how often significant decisions happen with very little public awareness. Not because they are trivial, rather because they never properly enter the [...]
From Party Politics to Pebbles
The below blog is taken directly from the Suffrago blog, which you can sign up to for free here. The style is different, as it’s more corporate (plus I [...]
Viral-y
Posting my thoughts to my favourite platform - TikTok - this last week, I’ve struck a chord, somehow. Circa 100k people have watched my videos: one about my first day [...]
Ignore the Professors of Doom
Since 2012, I’ve run businesses of all shapes and sizes, in multiple countries and sectors. I’ve never obsessively tracked every penny in the accounts. What matters is simple: Keep [...]
