This joke has been told to me by three generations of my family. It reveals the enduring interplay of hope…
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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…
The Kardashians and Greta Garbo – keeping up with us
I am reminded of the Peter Cook sketch, riding on a bicycle down an empty, working-class, terraced street dressed as…
Schools prohibited from teaching anti-capitalist materials…and other o-rings
In 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded, killing its seven crew members. The cause was a failure of a seal…
Racism in policing is the problem: its ‘eradication’ is not the solution
As long ago as 2004, working with the Home Office to redesign National Police Probationer Training, I provided a briefing paper on the…
