Now that I have expertly masterminded the diminishing of my own public presence – an 18 month process of careful non-action, locked accounts, moved blogs, paused podcasts and private conversations – I feel once again able to relax into a non-aggressive, celebratory mode of being, which I recognise as much truer to myself.
It has been [...]
Since the exit of Blair, Brown’s takeover at the top of the Labour party, making him Prime Minister without an election has rankled with the British population. His virtues – and there are some – have been masked by dissatisfaction based on the length of Labour’s incumbency, as much as a general dislike and mistrust [...]
Are you confused? We were. Years of calculations out of the window, mental arithmetic and judgement of distance, weight and volume up the spout. Away went inches, yards, fathoms, furlongs, but confusingly we kept ounces, pounds and stones, for a while. Why did we have a 12 times table anyway? What was the relevance of [...]
I don’t really care whether people read this blog or not, and that is the big difference between The Other Side of Everything and Blog of Funk, which preceded it. Previously I cared passionately about my readers, and was exploring both inner worlds and outer worlds which we seem to share in the torrent of [...]