What is wrong with the NHS hospital doctors and consultants? They must surely understand by now that their unprecedented joint strike action later this month…
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…
It was September 1983. Three weeks before, the Soviet air force had shot down a Korean airliner and Cold War tensions were running high. Stanislav…
I confess that, living in the relative shelter of the South Downs, I was a little underwhelmed by Storm Eunice. And as one by one,…