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 [...]
How is Your MP Performing?
In what is a UK-first, I’ve helped to launch 650 MP performance polls! What a jolly good idea, even if I do say so myself. https://www.suffrago.org/question?id=3cec8091d49e1e18f58a25b7f217dce8 The voting is all [...]
A Policeman, a (Former) Lawyer, and a Fire (no fireman)….
This week, one of my kids — along with others I’d taken away — built a fire on a beach. All innocent. All safe. All fun. Their North Face [...]
The Sugababes, a Viking Ship, and Our Digital Footprint
Bang-average British girl band The Sugababes started in 1998 with Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena, and Keisha Buchanan (according to my research!). Over the years, Siobhán left and was replaced by [...]
