The news that NHS doctors are now, generally speaking, too scared of their managers to blow the whistle on dangerous care should come as no surprise to…
It has been a lovely Christmas holiday, with both my children in the house. One still lives here all the time and the one is…
I was just talking to a friend about her travails with car insurers Aviva. Apparently, they told her – when she finally got through to…
The AI debate has been speeded up by the emergence of ChatGPT. And I’ve been a little muddled about it, until my friend and colleague…
It is now nearly three years since I published my book Tickbox, a book about a peculiar and widespread fantasy – shared by those who…
I have been trying to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of my Tickbox book – really just…
In the heyday of Gordon Brown’s chancellorship, I went to a conference about the future of ‘extended schools’. The first speaker was an amazing headteacher,…
It is a little terrifying to think that thee general election of 1997, which brought with it such a sea change in our politics, was…
Why are we so sick these days? I mean, really? It wasn’t suppose to be like this – thanks to Beveridge, we had assumed that…
I normally agree with nearly everything my esteemed colleague Simon Mundy says – especially about the Home Office. The issue is why it is quite…