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 [...]
Who’s In Charge? (Notes from the Spa)
Because I’m a Harrogatonian, it will surprise no one to hear I go to the spa, quite often. (Purely medicinal, obviously.) This spa sees a mix of locals and holidaymakers [...]
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 [...]
Burden, Fortnite, and News
Suffrago work, health, chaos. That’s been my life lately. Zero complaints. This Sunday morning, at last, a moment to reflect — and blog. For many of the dozens of new [...]
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 [...]
Heaven Is a Place on Earth — and I Was There Yesterday
A few years ago, we bought some woods in Yorkshire. Just a few acres. I couldn’t name half the trees. Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, lying by the campfire (given that [...]
Still Not Even Paying Peanuts
My usually chilled-ness demeanour (some will not agree that I am ever this) rapidly turned to rage today when I saw a “job” ad from a well-known Quaker-inspired national [...]
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 [...]
Up Yours, Labels
I took this photo on my morning walk, just beyond the caravan park I’ve visited since childhood — where Cumbria and Lancashire nudge up against each other, and the park’s [...]
