If your career plan relies on big platforms paying your wages in return for views, listens or clicks you’re making a big mistake. Own your audience and you will own your income.

After 14 years of Tory Government, if you're in desperate need of an alternative to their divisive, hard right nonsense, you might like this - you can pre-order a signed copy here bit.ly/3UHQGDR #AnotherEngland

The whoosh is all.

With a few exceptions this is me too. Our ears and eyes need time to adjust to what we have not explored and therein lies the great wealth

The news is full of Britain’s decline and now various blame pieces trying to find that moment where decline begun. Perhaps it NEEDS to decline in order to change. It’s absurd to think that institutions and ideologies can remain the same forever.

In no particular order: The writings of Charles Duhigg, Spring walks across meadows with my dog and the wonderfully wise and prescient words of jeanette winterson

I’m all for the right to roam but please take your cr*p home with you

When bad weather comes to the rescue. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Something wonderful is afoot “We need people to be intertwined with the land like brambles in the bushes,” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

if I could time travel - maybe I would have said this…

Is this the right answer?

And it’s out. My heart is officially online…

Putting broken love back together again! Part #1

“I’ve found traces of water in the sewage...” Today’s ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ cover, nailing the state of rivers under the Tories.

“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis” A brilliant, confronting new poem by Zaffar Kunial, written into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this moment.

When your daughter has been diagnosed with a serious illness and Ryanair Ryanair Press Team won’t even issue you a voucher refund for your flight. Isn’t it time we think about what kind of companies we wish to use? I personally will never ever fly Ryanair ever again.

What the ⁦The Guardian⁩ fails to mention was how much state school land and playing grounds were sold off for housing development under ⁦Tony Blair’s ⁦The Labour Party⁩ theguardian.com/education/arti…

Finally someone with the courage to propose democratic change. Thankyou ⁦Clive Lewis MP⁩ Water industry ownership should be decided by citizens’ assembly theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Our water is being mismanaged. Everyone knows it. Think this failing system should be overhauled for good? Then back the Water Bill I've introduced to Parliament actionnetwork.org/forms/add-your…