Thought Crime

The notion that we, in the United Kingdom, must pursue the process of leaving the European Union at all costs, regardless of the new information that seems to arrive on a daily basis

There is something that no one has ever told you, but that you know all the same. Deep down, inside yourself, you have always known that you are not special, even though the

This week the British Home Secretary made some particularly foolish statements about services that leverage end-to-end encryption in order to make communications secure. Since these sorts of services have started to experience wide

"These violent delights have violent ends." (Delores) So I have completed the re-watch of Westworld that I was intending to do last year... I am confronted with something stark - I

...and I wished for the ignorance that I had enjoyed before. Today, on the internet, I discovered something that made my skin itch and shortly thereafter actually made me nauseous. I discovered that

A couple of people asked me why I was reading a book about divorce, when they saw me reading Split, a book edited and contributed to by Katie West. The simple answer, the

I would love to believe that "a Brexit that works for Britain" were an achievable goal, but it's fantasy, and nothing more. The 98% are going to spend a generation being

The idea of a united Europe is not a new one. It first came about after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Back in 1464, George of Podebrady proposed a union of European

It is a long time since I read a whole book, from start to finish, in one day. The last time I did it was in Palawan, last May. Since then while I

Home is a hard word to describe. You can go through the various definitions in the dictionary and still be left with a sense of something missing. The feeling that not everything is

Full Disclosure — I worked at the BBC, I love the BBC, I don’t see the BBC as more important than the NHS, or Schools, or the Social Care Services or various other

Have you heard the parable about the man who was offered a chance to see what it is like in Hell and then in Heaven so that he can understand why he ought

How to create a productive culture in your business## or### How to avoid destroying your business## Last week I posted my first “issue” of this series of posts, here, wherein I offered some

How to destroy a good idea## or### Management techniques designed to kill your business## Over the years of my career as a software engineer I have worked for a nice, wide variety of

I do not understand sexism and misogyny. I am heading towards the wrong side of forty and I am still trying to make sense of it, but one thing is for sure I

Okay, so here it is... "We should be willing to call a terrorist a terrorist, no matter the colour of their skin or the (religious) beliefs that they espouse. Killing and / or