Monthly Archives: December 2021

This has been an interesting year. That’s possibly an understatement. I started this blog as a way to help me express myself and at the same time, I’m arrogant enough to think that maybe others might like to read my ramblings. My first post was on 7 May and this last post of the yearContinue reading “Review of 2021”

Welcome to Privilege Part 2. Those advantages I have then translate into material wealth and/or a comfortableness that I drift through life with. And don’t get me wrong, I work hard to ensure my business is busy, making money and paying everyone. I went and worked outside of my family business to see what elseContinue reading “Privilege Part 2”

If you live in the UK and have not been living under a lovely moss covered rock for the past few weeks, you will have heard of Allegra Stratton. She was the Downing Street Press Secretary who we saw laughing in a video about the fact that there was a Christmas Party at No. 10Continue reading “The Woeful Tale of Allegra Stratton – Long Read”

I struggle with the discussion around privilege, mainly because I believe myself to be privileged and comfortable in many ways and therefore feel like a fraud expounding on the privileges others have or don’t have and how that affects their lives. So here I am writing it down, working it out. I think the wordContinue reading “Privilege Part 1”

When I broke my collarbone, it was a clear medical emergency. I went and got an x-ray, had a consultant tell me I’d broken my bone, given a sling and told to go home and rest. Now granted I did that macho bullshit thing of waiting a few days before seeking treatment (as I’ve mentionedContinue reading “Covid-19 Is a Virus Not an Ideology”