Opinion: Why I will be making trouble for the census
After voting in elections, I doubt there is any civic duty more important than responding to the decennial census. The information it provides to governments for policy making is vital, and often very...
View ArticleOpinion: Opening up the benefits of renewable energy means considering much...
At present for somebody to benefit from the subsidies offered to small scale renewable energy production they must have three things: 1 – Ownership of a property suitable for producing renewable energy...
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Opinion: Corruption – We can do better than this
The UK is more corrupt than Qatar. That’s not my judgement, but that of the World Bank and their Control of Corruption Index. This places the UK 18th in the world, behind not only Qatar but Iceland,...
View Article3 facts about assisted dying (or ‘it’s not all about Switzerland you know’)
The debate around legalising assisted dying seems increasingly to centre on the case of suicide tourism; whether people should ‘have to’ travel to clinics in Switzerland where they can legally end...
View ArticleWe need to talk about existential risk
I am the Lib Dem PPC for Dartford in the upcoming general election, and, like candidates up and down the country, my campaign is being dominated by local issues. This is right and proper, a good MP can...
View ArticleMore in common – my visit to my local mosque
Campaigning for the General Election has been suspended twice in recent days, and rightly so. Last Sunday, we paused in memory of Jo Cox, her lifelong work to show that we have more in common and her...
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