An anti-semitic joke? No – a continuing tragedy

This joke has been told to me by three generations of my family. It reveals the enduring interplay of hope … More

Cleveland, Covid and Going Local

Let’s go back more than a century. In 1915 the city of Cleveland (Ohio) took on a project to modernise … More

I am reminded of the Peter Cook sketch, riding on a bicycle down an empty, working-class, terraced street dressed as … More

In 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded, killing its seven crew members. The cause was a failure of a seal … More

As long ago as 2004, working with the Home Office to redesign National Police Probationer Training, I provided a briefing paper on the … More