Balance isn’t journalism
I worry that if we as a country are to find a way to prosper again, we all need to be better informed and our…
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Life coaching from a Labrador might work
Remember when Brian Griffin wrote an advice book? Wish it. Want it. Do it. The last 200 pages were blank, for your own notes.
A few sunny days shouldn’t mean water restrictions
It was hot this week — and right on cue, my drinking water supplier emailed to ask if I'd mind cutting my showers to four minutes. My first instinct was the usual one: another tough choice dodged. But it turns out making us use less isn't the failure of the plan. It is the plan.
We invented an actual magic pill, but we want a different one
Why is accepting there are hard choices to make with our country so hard to stomach, when getting thin with a jab - actually possible - is morally rejected.
Parliament should have the final say
Today Keir Starmer has been talking to people like me, carrying on the crusade to “back the builders, not the blockers” and I have to…
Objectives are important
I feel as though I’ll regret writing this post, but I feel the need anyway. I’m seeing a lot of people who are saying they…
What would I even stockpile?
Over the weekend, the snow – and the fact that it turned to ice, trapping me (yes, I’m exaggerating) at the top of a hill…
#BEDM17 The call to PR: too late or too early?
I’m blogging every day in May, for no particular reason other than I can. I’ve come up with 31 topics and I’m going to bash…
Libraries of Hampshire: I believe in you.
Yesterday I dispatched a missive on this very blog about how I, if someone were to have accidentally left me in charge, would run Hampshire’s…
Libraries of Hampshire: believe in yourself
I took part in Hampshire County Council’s consultation over the future of its libraries a few weeks ago. The consultation itself has been rather controversial…
What we come to expect
I had a remarkable experience at Woking railway station the other day. It shouldn’t have been remarkable at all; it shouldn’t even be the topic…
39 dwellings
It’s hard to tell just how many tweets there have been about the flooded development site near Whalley in Ribble Valey just off the A59 but it’s fair to say it’s been a quite a few.