
RIP Doreen Annable (1931-2019)
I was told earlier today by my grandmother's care home that she passed away at 6.15 this morning. It's a strange phone call to get: One that leaves you with…
Read moreI was told earlier today by my grandmother's care home that she passed away at 6.15 this morning. It's a strange phone call to get: One that leaves you with…
Read moreI've been taking a party political sabbatical since March 2017, when I resigned my Conservative Party membership out of concerns which had broadened out to be largely true. As I…
Read moreDominic Cummings is often credited as being an excellent tactician when it comes to delivering campaigns. He did, after all, deliver a near-impossible victory for Leave. We can speculate endlessly…
Read moreFor the past couple of months, I've been in what can be described as a version of Hell: Trying to convince an elderly relative, my grandmother, that she needed to…
Read moreToday marks my last day as Trustee for Online Communications for First Steps ED, the East Midlands' only – and expanding – eating disorders charity. My resignation becomes effective at the…
Read moreI never thought that I'd right this blog post: I've been constantly calling for a rethink on Brexit for a succession of years. The principal reason for this being is…
Read more“The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. - George Osborne “Before I…
Read more“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”…
Read moreThose of us who are either old enough to remember John Major's passage of the Maastricht Treaty through an increasingly Eurosceptic Tory-majority Parliament (not me), or are obsessive enough about…
Read moreBoris Johnson is a man who is well-known for a plethora of at the very least what can be described as “ignorant” remarks. These include – but are not limited…
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