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 [...]
Vindication?
Following Trump's recent peace deal in the Middle East, I am pasting below my blog on this topic from December 24. ................................................ I wanted Trump to win the last election. [...]
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 [...]
How to Lose All Your Blog Subscribers (Again): Retirement Is a Terrible Idea
I’ve been mulling this for a while: I think “retirement” is one of the most damaging cultural inventions of the last century. In fact, if I were Supreme Leader [...]
Health Is Wealth (and Then Some)
Poor health has a way of sharpening the mind. Lying in bed - again - grounded by illness, strange thoughts emerge. Proust, Nietzsche, (Gray?) and others did their best [...]
The House of Commons Select Committee
Presenting Suffrago to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation this Tuesday was meant to be the pinnacle of my personal and professional journey. Alas, life [...]
Why I Struggle With “Progressives”
Many of my friends and colleagues would describe themselves as “progressive.” I want to agree with them. I really do. I want to be one, but I can’t and [...]
