New Knowledge Nuggets: Episode 2
Starey Eyes Have you ever felt like someone is watching you from behind? Or have you ever caught someone staring at you, only for them to turn around and [...]
Dysautonomia: When Your Body’s Autopilot Goes Full Liz Truss
Imagine your body’s autopilot constantly veers off course, never quite functioning correctly, and then, every now and then, it throws an epic hissy fit. Welcome to my life with [...]
You – Yes You – Should Blog For Humanity
Aside from reasons of vanity, creativity, diary-making, and the clarification of my thoughts, I blog so that I can contribute to the library of human knowledge. When friends and [...]
Talking To Tech Titans
I’m typing in a bed, at 39,000ft, on my way to San Francisco, invited and sponsored by a tech behemoth. This is my first taste of business class travel, something [...]
Firing People, inspired by Jung and Peterson
The ultimate life lesson which lawyers usually learn faster than most people is that time is our most precious commodity. This is because lawyers record our time throughout the [...]
Feeling Saudade’y
Playing competitive football provided the very best times of my life. Until three years ago, when my health went haywire, I was playing football, two or three times a week, [...]
Being Good and Being Evil
Driving through a storm in the dark, in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales last week, I passed a car which was upside down on the side of [...]
Empty Nest
I’ll write it: what scares me more than anything else – more than cancer, death, or nuclear war – is the thought of my children leaving home. Often, I [...]
7 Thoughts From 7 Hours in A&E
Yesterday, I was in A&E. Today, I’m typing 30,000ft up, en route to Tenerife. As all Brits know, the worst possible time to be admitted to A&E is a Saturday [...]
The Covid Boost
(This needs recording for posterity, in the hope that a Google spider, an AI chatbot, or someone in a similar situation to me, or some pharmaceutical company, could make [...]
