Insects, hot water and Covid
Shhh.... I have a secret. Promise not to tell? Last night, I forgot about the NHS clap. I know, I feel dreadful about it. As the clattering – and why [...]
What is work? Enter: Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Before this crisis, most of us had some sort of work to perform. You might be thinking: what about the retired and the super-rich – surely, they didn’t perform any [...]
Testing, testing, 1, 2, not 3
In mid-February, I started with a sky-high temperature. After that, I was absolutely shattered for two days. Adhering to governmental instruction, I telephoned 111, and followed their advice: no need [...]
Can I say this? The kids have never been happier
As we roll into our fourth week in lockdown (we started earlier than most because of my wife’s high temperature), my children - 8 and 10 - are the happiest [...]
How a solicitor political leader might act?
With the PM fighting for his life, the mantle has been passed to Dominic Raab, a solicitor. Sidestepping the constitutional crisis, given that it is the Queen who appoints a [...]
No time for sexism, Secretary General
In a thoughtful piece printed in The Guardian on 2 April 2020, United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, argues for a three-pronged approach to tackling the pandemic. To boil it down, [...]
Get well soon, Boris
For temporal context, I type this blog as the PM is spending his second night in hospital with coronavirus. As I type this second sentence, Boris has now been taken [...]
Are You Important?
I’m not particularly important to the functioning of society, and nor are most people. But that’s OK. This confirmation was made crystal clear by the Department of Education’s recent list [...]
Lock Them Up?
It’s a criminal offence to speed, because when you speed, you are a danger to others. It is a criminal offence to have unprotected sex, as a HIV carrier, if [...]
Then The Earth Healed
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And [...]
