At the height of the phone hacking scandal, I was offered £140,000 to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. I’ve got George Galloway to thank for turning it down, but I’m glad that Matt Hancock took a risk and signed up for I’m a celebrity.
Why do people have autism, ADHD and other neurological 'disorders'? Recent research tries to understand the condition in terms of evolutionary theory. It's opening up a debate about public policy.
This week the government published a report into a mass death of sea life on the North East coast of Britain. The review concluded it was probably down to a new unique illness, but not all marine experts hold this view. Many claim the report failed to explain other species mortalities.
This week, the government reneged on a manifesto commitment to plant trees at a rate that will give us 17.5% of the country’s land covered in trees. I joined the debate on setting a new environmental target of 16.5% coverage.
If you can cope with watching me speak for four and a bit minutes, here is my first speech in the House of Lords. I hoped to describe Wyre Forest and big up Bewdley Civic Society, but debate time was cut. I’ll find another opportunity to do this in the new year.
At the height of the phone hacking scandal, I was offered £140,000 to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. I’ve got George Galloway to thank for turning it down, but I’m glad that Matt Hancock took a risk and signed up for I’m a celebrity.
Why do people have autism, ADHD and other neurological 'disorders'? Recent research tries to understand the condition in terms of evolutionary theory. It's opening up a debate about public policy.
As shadow chancellor on the brink of government, Rachel Reeves can say things that John Smith and Gordon Brown could not as easily say when they were shadow chancellor in the nineties.
It's nearly five years since I started the journey to reverse Type 2 Diabetes. I've had some tough days, particularly in the covid months.
Long time no write. It’s been a bleak cold winter and the spring sun has only just warmed my fingers enough to tap away at the keyboard.
This week teenagers will be getting their A-level and GCSE grades. God, I feel sorry for them. Being young in a pandemic has been like a giant teens prison…
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. I remember reading that Larkin poem lamenting that I never wanted that to happen to me…
I’m nearly at the fourth anniversary of giving up refined sugar and ultra-processed food. Even now, I have days where I miss it. Last week…
GPs in Shetland are prescribing listening to birdsong, picking up driftwood on the beach and walking as solutions to modern world maladies like anxiety and melancholy…
Lockdown Three has been a minute by minute oppression, and I start April in a state of anxiety. The question I'm constantly asking myself is…
Five years ago, a domestic abuse survivor told me that to get a non-molestation order on her violent partner, the court demanded…
In 1937 Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave because Jack Gee, her violent, estranged husband, who after her death grew rich…
In 2017 Russian hackers closed down Ukraine's national power grid, crashed computers and phones and shut off the cash machines…
Recent newspaper reports, denied by Downing Street, suggest our Prime Minister is prone to afternoon naps. Fair play to him…
After years of devolving control of my Facebook page to the ever patient Nicole, it’s taken me since last Christmas to get to grips with how it actually works…
I was interviewed in Sorted magazine and they asked a lot of questions I wasn’t expecting! This one does not major on cheese…
If I could start my life again, I'd make the young me continue with piano and guitar lessons. I might even make me stick with the violin…
What a year it has been. If when I left Parliament last December you told me that a year later I would be featuring next to Tony Hawk…
If we’ve got one thing to be thankful for in 2020, it’s the explosion of quality cheese eating in our country. We Brits have gone mad…
Thank you Stranger Things for giving my kids interest in Dungeons and Dragons. I’m not saying they think their dad has led a culturally…
If you can cope with watching me speak for four and a bit minutes, here is my first speech in the House of Lords. I hoped to describe Wyre Forest and big up Bewdley Civic Society, but debate time was cut. I’ll find another opportunity to do this in the new year.