Things are getting crazy out there — Love them or hate them, it’s hard to ignore them — Just Stop Oil are in the news every day now, here in the UK. All over the country, activists are popping up at sporting events, blocking roads, gluing themselves to things, sabotaging the oil and petrol industry, and more. …

And I was way ahead of the curve — A new trend has exploded on TikTok. Seems everyone now is looking for ‘Lazy Girl Jobs’. Hugely popular among Zoomers, it’s the latest in workplace idealism. Well, I’m proud to say I was way ahead of the curve there. Despite being a 53 year-old male, it seems I’ve been following…

A lesson in levelling up your social media content — Like so many people, I was about to take the coward’s way out. Declaring that “Twitter is dying” and blaming Elon Musk for killing it, I was ready to toss in my cards and look for another platform. Stupid, really. Of course Twitter’s not dying — do you really think…

The importance of embracing change — In a world that’s perpetually in flux, change is the only constant. You know this already. Everyone knows it. I knew it (or thought I did). But it took me a long time… a LONG time… to realise I wasn’t living this truth. I hadn’t grokked it. I was writing…

Embracing nature in the modern world — October, and the leaves hissed in the canopy above, like gravel on the seashore. The creaking and groaning of the larger boughs spoke of a restlessness in the air that had replaced the sleepy days of summer. Even down on the woodland floor, the occasional gust lifted my hair, and…

America’s ‘greatest novelist’ has passed away, leaving a unique legacy — Stephen King called him “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time”. Yet less than one month after the passing of another literary great, Martin Amis, Cormac McCarthy has died. Despite his huge success and the popularity of award-winning novels such as No Country for Old Men and The Road…

This landmark legal ruling sets a vital precedent for animal rights — A high court in Bombay has ruled in an important landmark case that non-human animals have emotions, feelings and sensitivities, just like humans. Of course, anyone who lives with a cat or a dog knows that animals have feelings and emotions. We’ve known it for a long, long time, but…

Are the courts being pressured by business interests to find climate activists guilty? — A 350 year old rule of British law is under threat, and with it our very democracy itself. Before giving evidence in court, every witness must either swear (if they are religious) or ‘solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm’ if they are not religious, that the evidence they are…

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