This is what I think of the world.
Yesterday, I landed in London after travelling to New Zealand and California, staying with friends, visiting museums and galleries, and avoiding any news for three weeks. Suddenly the intensity of UK and global politics came sharply into focus and it feels like I’ve been thrust back into the middle of it all.
Read MoreYesterday, I met a Labourite and we had dinner in a Brick Lane curry house, and I remembered seeing their members in the Pride in London parade. The clever folk of LGBT Labour produce shirts for members to wear on Pride which state “I’ve never kissed a Tory.”
Read MoreAs part of my ongoing decision to be more transparent about, and perhaps proud of, the campaigning I’m doing, I’ve just written to my local MP about Brexit.
Read MoreI’ve been sitting on a draft of this post because I don’t know how to finalise it. There is just too much to try and cover, all in similar vein and yet not coherent when placed together, so instead I’ll be drawing this out to a mini series of posts over the next few weeks in a desperate attempt to understand the world as it stands.
Read MoreIs there a starting point in the way we communicate that allows two people to fundamentally understand one another? Or is there something inherently wrong with assuming that someone will automatically get what you’re saying?
Read MoreWe sit around a table. It’s a table which is replicated in organisations across the country. We look around, and agonisingly realise how little we represent the community we have come to serve.
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