Twelve posts from my first year of blogging
A year after this blog (re)started, I thought I'd share a dozen of my favourite posts. A mixture of those that were most read and most commented on at the…
Month: April 2019
Book Review: The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure by Gerald Durrell
One of Gerald Durrell's less well-known books, I first read this myself as a child and have recently read it to my own son, aged five. It was an amazing…
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How Identity Politics Divides Us
Those of us who oppose to identity politics often do so because we believe that it is a worldview that increases societal division, by encouraging people to divide themselves into…
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Wonkhe: What happens to your consultation responses?
In my latest piece on Wonkhe, I shed some light on how the government goes about processing responses to a consultation. Read the full article by following the link below.…
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Ten Things I’ve Learned From Canvassing
With postal votes for the local elections landing on people's doorsteps today, I thought I'd share 10 things I've learned from canvassing over the last few months, while I've been…
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Rights vs Freedoms
Note that these are not new ideas; they have been discussed extensively in academia and elsewhere. But it is a lens that I find can be helpful. In some recent…
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On Leaving the Civil Service
Almost a year ago today I formally left the civil service. Handing in my notice was one of the hardest things I've voluntarily done. I'd joined the civil service immediately…
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Confirmation Bias and Vote Leave’s Crimes
The differing opinions over whether the fact that Vote Leave broke electoral law had any impact on the result of the Brexit Referendum offer one of the clearest examples of…