A new dawn fades….
Or a new moon rises - been enjoying some quite stunning moon / venus and saturn combinations as dusk sets each evening. Not much else has changed since the January blog then - apart from the unrelenting screech of the US Uber Rich Men of the People taking back control from the woke classes. Or
Back by dope demand….
After extensive polling and public feedback here comes the first blog of 2025. Going to free myself from the constraints of 'weekly' and probably from many of the conventions of good manners. So here as usual is a presentation of life inside my head right now. Work - just getting ready for the final submission of
Why Here – Why Now…
It was the summer of 2020 – there was a global pandemic, much of society was in lockdown. There was clearly no better time than to make a life changing decision and leave work. I had been working at Executive level in a large national charity for over two decades, was committed to the aims
Pale Male and Stale
Pale Male and Stale or - what you can do to create change I asked some trusted friends and colleagues what they thought my opening blogs should about when I launched this website. General consensus was “talk about things you know about and have an interesting take on – strategy, change and being an old white
Strategy into action
Strategy into Action I’m launching a new website so need to write some ‘stuff’ – hopefully interesting, possibly useful and always going to be my personal take on something. As one colleague said “well you have to start with Strategy into Action – it’s what you’re known for and best at”. So here goes – my
Drug Treatment
The politics of drug treatment and why we keep missing the point I’m never quite sure whether it was through planning or chance that I ended up spending most of my adult life working in the drug treatment sector – but once in it was an impossible area to leave. It began in the late 80’s
