Chantries Wood near Guildford looking exquisite this morning on dog walk…..appreciate the different seasons and the subtle changes between them…..

Looking forward to this enormously important discussion at London Build 2024. The Grenfell tragedy rightly shocked and shamed UK construction. Now that the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry has produced its 1,700 page Phase 2 Report, we are in a critical phase of needing to

Tonight is a good night for Israel, and indeed the entire civilised world. Whatever one’s views on how the war in Gaza is being conducted by the state of Israel, Hamas is evil personified as any objective view of 7th October 2023 testifies. When Yahya Sinwar was a prisoner in

If war breaks out, at least we will be healthy and well cared for by the State?

Remembrance Sunday 2024. Image is a C-17 repatriation flight from Afghanistan. Always remember. “si vis pacem, para bellum”.

As the farmers protest in London today over the new UK Labour Government’s recent budget, I’m not being political (as if!) but as someone who has always loved wordplay, I can’t help observing that our Prime Minister’s surname is a gift to wits everywhere. I guess the moral is

Our Foreign Secretary David Lammy needs a little help on his geography…..Syria and Libya are nearly 1,000 miles apart…..but, to be fair, there is a lot going on at the moment, and it must be hard to keep up….

I recently spoke at London Build 2025 Expo on fire safety regulation in the context of the Grenfell Phase 2 Inquiry report, as published earlier this autumn. 30,000 people attended that event over its two days at Olympia in November. The organisers of that discussion - Adexon

Zelenskyy this morning on X. He is of course entirely correct in this observation. But note the shift to the emphasis on Europe, not the wider West, in terms our our ability to “reliably and effectively stop wars” - in this case via the more effective defence of Ukraine. He is

Interesting educational background data on MPs from the Sutton Trust....

Hamas have called President Donald J. Trump plan for Gaza “a recipe for chaos”. Because having genocidal intent towards your neighbour, and murdering 1,200 of their citizens on a single day is not “a recipe for chaos”. #dailyhypocrisy

This may well prove to be both true but also not inevitable at the same time…..

I completely agree.

Is Trump being played? Or is he making the play? Discuss.

For some reason, I have always loved Prague…

Dear world. When you spread antisemitic blood libels Jews get murdered. After 2000 years of examples, I thought you would have learnt the lesson. Tragically not.

Reforms to Building Safety Regulator to accelerate housebuilding gov.uk/government/new…