Newsletter Version: Meet the Attention Activists
Can I have your attention, please? Professor D. Graham Burnett would like it, too. Graham is an historian of tech and science… and through his research has become so passionate about reclaiming our attention from the grip of tech giants and addictive digital media that he has started a new movement. Alongside some colleagues, friends, […]
Why do we feel nostalgic? Newsletter version
Last night, after bathing Molly and putting her to bed, I got stuck into one of my favourite pastimes: taking the bins out. What was once a grubby chore has become a rare moment of solace. It’s just me and the night sky… and the bins. I pause for a moment after I’ve delivered the […]
Should pensioners move into smaller homes?
Ah, here I am again, pretending to be authoritative on the television. I was on Storm Huntley’s show on Channel 5 and we got to talking about pensioners who live in large houses, younger people struggling to get on the housing ladder, and if older people should downsize to make more homes available for families. […]