It’s notoriously hard to break a habit. Habit breaking takes time, creativity, willpower, and dedication. So it’s interesting to see how many people have taken the chance provided by lockdown, and the strange months since it began to ease, to […]

Every day thousands of websites get hacked. Hacks are part of everyday online life and it’s easy to get complacent, especially if your own site hasn’t been hacked… yet. At the same time, complacency can be dangerous. Cyber security threats […]

“I’ve had lots of contact with people who are really destroyed by this. They never expected it to be a long term chronic problem.” (Tim Spector, Epidemiologist, Kings College London) Personally, I don’t feel I can trust England’s government to […]

In an earlier post I looked into the basics of Values Based Consumerism. This time I’m exploring why it matters. Corporate bodies and social responsibility – An uneasy fit Being a decent person means not grabbing all the resources for […]

Lockdown might be easing but like many people I’m staying put, staying safe, staying in until the science becomes clearer. And in the meantime, I’m thinking… hard. I’m not the only one re-evaluating modern life. All over the world people […]

How’s your lockdown going? For me it’s beginning to feel normal, but I’ve worked at home for more than fifteen years so the shock wasn’t anywhere near as profound as it was for some. Life trundles on. Here are some […]

Here we are, several weeks into lockdown, and normal life couldn’t feel farther away. These days ‘normal’ feels like a lot like a foreign land seen from a great distance. As we wait to find out what the new post-Covid-19 […]