08 Mar

As it’s my birthday here’s a post about parties and storytelling. It’s a familiar scene.  You’re at a party, someone comes over to talk to…

22 Feb

It feels a bit cheap to be complaining about EU policy jargon AGAIN but I do think communications throughout the Brussels bubble would get a…

08 Feb

Shortly after the Brexit referendum my mother and I had a conversation about the reasons why people we knew had voted to…

23 Jan

There’s a fair bit of Macron mania sweeping the UK at the moment after the French President did an extremely accomplished and engaging interview…

08 Dec

Yesterday morning I was listening to the BBC Today Programme’s coverage of Brexit and the Northern Irish border which featured an interview with hard…

24 Oct

‘I was supposed to know the plot but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no meaning…