1. Boris Johnson did not attend the first five emergency government meetings 2. In the early stages Johnson was more focused on the EU withdrawal & his cabinet reshuffle 3. Johnson spent 12 days on a country retreat holiday in February – while his ministers, medical and science experts were discussing
Darling Albion We already reaped a bitter harvest A mountain of dead This time at home, in no time of war, instead of brown people far away We hoped enough would see The suffering, the starving children, rotting houses, This time at home, in no time of war, instead of
Finally published book 3, Better Way in the series Tales of a Brighter Future https://leanpub.com/better-way About to send it off to my friendly readers The book was originally called B Train, and I wanted to change the name to Walk Away and I realised that Corey Doctrow
I hear tomorrow roaring down at me Relentless fire Everything you love will one day be gone But So will all you hate And that’s fine It’s better Better than better So death or just temporary silent sleep Before some complex chain of circumstance, cause and condition Throws
Another seemingly small thing is dignity. We’ve all got to let everyone have their dignity. It was hard coming from a place where controlling other people was a normal and even approved of us all being controlled. A place where a tiny number of people who owned everything got
Rewarding people is always a bit fraught. Several things can happen, sometimes at the same time. First the rewards can come to be expected, so they aren’t rewards any more, then people get very pissed off when they don’t happen for whatever reason. Then you could be the
“If something inside you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write towards vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about
The old Stoic writer Seneca was very concerned with making sure noble young men (well it was men in that society) understood that the best thing you could do was accept whatever happens. He also pointed out that everything comes to an end, and if you were to die before
Kill your empire A good thing? Here in the UK we’ve been sold the idea that the Empire that this country used to have was a force for good in the world, and the bad things done in its name are only a few aberrations that mar an otherwise
The one thing they cannot stand is laughter. Their whole being is based on being taken seriously, instead of being being seen as the children they are. Who but a child would stamp their foot and demand attention? Who but a child would take a narrow solipsism to such a
Don’t be fooled. The state imposes its power on you with violence. Whenever someone starts saying they don’t believe in violence they’re either apologising for the state or they haven’t thought it through. The state has become the new religion for a lot of people who
First People who attempt to privilege their point of view due to an accident of birth are not people I will engange with. Magical thinking means their arguments don’t have to hold water, they’re just right because their privilege makes them right. This is ridiculous. If the only