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 across the press and the social media, continues to persuade me that there is nothing but insanity

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 World appears to be set up to inculcate the idea within you that you are. That is

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 levels of adoption, authoritarian politicians have been talking about how the companies that provide these services need

"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 am going to need to watch it again. In fact I think that I am going to

...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 there is a "thing", that one could perhaps describe as a sub subculture, the demon

A couple of people asked me why I was reading a book about divorce, when they saw me reading Split [https://fictionandfeeling.com/products/split-true-stories-about-the-end-of-marriage-and-what-happens-next] , a book edited and contributed to by Katie West [https://www.therealkatiewest.com]. The simple answer, the one that does not require a longer conversation,

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 totally screwed. The lie of English exceptionalism, and it is not UK exceptionalism at all,

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 Christian nations against the forming Ottoman Empire. At the time the notion was based on the religious

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 have read four technical books, I have not finished a work of fiction. I am still reading

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 in place. Greece is my home. I know the people and their moods. I understand how things

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 things people might pick on as “more important” that have all suffered and are all suffering at

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 to live a good life? He is taken first to Hell, wherein he sees all of the

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 advice about management styles to be avoided, mostly because of their tendency to drive away talent and

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 organisations, and to be honest with you there is a lot to be said for the learning

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 am quite certain that it is real. I was raised in a comfortable middle-class bubble by two

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 injuring innocent people to make a point is an unacceptable approach to affecting change, and we should