March 2023

I've been following the awful story of the primary school headteacher who killed herself after an inexplicable top to bottom down-grading from Ofsted.  I say inexplicable because how can the leadership of a school be inadequate when every other grade is...

I've bought a "vegan nail brush" from a "leading British lifestyle brand" made with "pure cactus bristle" – Agave sisalana – from Mexico with a FSC birch base.  The alternative was plastic so I took the plunge.  It's very nice.  But, given...

For a change, I watched a nature programme on TV: the new David Attenborough series, Wild Isles.  It was as spectacular as promised, although I failed to see any coherence to it.  We flitted from video of life and death struggles:...

A friend reckons that green policies are about to be rumbled and the time is coming when the public, or perhaps a particularly well-connected, noisy part of it, will "rise up" and be counted.  He's not some Marxist shrill, just...

I watched Jonathan Ashworth MP on Channel 4 trying in vain to answer a question about how a new Labour government would manage to generate 100% of electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. It is fair to say he struggled....

This has been the driest February for 30 years and the 8th driest since 1836. According to the National Drought Group, England is only one hot dry spell away from widespread drought conditions.  Clearly action is needed.  So, surely what...