A Year On

I completed a 365 'photo a day' project last year largely because of how much I enjoyed looking through my 365 album from 2008. It's not just a collection of photos, but a collection of memories. A visual diary of a year of my life. I recommend the exercise. Last year was a remarkable year. …

Vaccine Passports

The ongoing debate about the possible introduction of vaccine passports isn’t something that I’ve managed to get particularly passionate about. I erred on the ‘no’ side of the argument for a long time. But the conspiracy theorist community have disproven the commonly held belief that you can’t change someone’s mind by shouting at them. I’m …

Blue Sky Thinking

Odd people say weird stuff everyday. Last week, a 40-something woman came into the booking hall to get out of the wind and roll up a cigarette. Against my unspoken wishes, she decided to instigate a conversation. She opened by stating that my life must be shit. Perhaps it is. I guess things depend on …

Morals and Medicine

I wrote a blog post recently (The Experiment) about how the UK is planning to fully ‘open up’ just as a new highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus starts to wreak havoc. Boris and co are getting twitchy. They don’t really know what to do at this point. This is understandable. There are forecasts, but …

The Second WaveI’m not sure I’ve spoken to anyone in the last month who doesn’t believe that there will be a second wave. It seems a certainty to me. But what do any of us really know? The coronavirus has given new meaning to the quote ‘the more I learn, the less I know’. I’m tempted …