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So I got out the hat, gloves and champagne last Saturday night, for although I'm a staunch Republican who doesn't believe for one moment that the Brits should have to use taxpayers' money to fund one of the most pompous, backward families on earth... oh, fuck, I do...

So we wake up this morning to learn about America's 22nd school shooting since the beginning of this year. Another disconnected young white male, another high school, another massacre of students AND a teacher – and another round of benign murmurings ('our thoughts...

The earth has music for those who listen - William Shakespeare Last week I was walking across a very busy, noisy, congested seaside caravan park, surrounded by distractions (screaming kids, dogs, BBQs) -- when a breeze blew. For no explicable reason, out of nowhere,...

We've all grown up in the past 30 years hearing nothing but horrible, awful things about cigarettes, cancer and the tobacco industry, whilst shaming smokers out of more and more public places. And yet many people still smoke – including “clean-living spiritual...

Anyone who made it through all three Fifty Shades of Grey novels (ahem) will remember that the most annoying part of the entire trilogy was not the problems of disempowerment, consent vs abuse, the author's insufficient grasp of S&M etc -- it was the repeated use...

It's school holidays which means in the past couple of weeks I've found myself doing everything from kids' coding at Hybrid World to sushi-making at the library to jumping on giant foam-sprayed blow-up castles. But the activity that had the most impact on me? A simple...

I am terrible at numbers. If someone in a shop gives me a handful of loose change, I can barely even count it. Do NOT ask me to add two large numbers up in my head. Sometimes I worry about what I'm going to do if my kids ever need homework help with... god forbid......

This week, the news has been covered with hateful images of white supremacists holding flaming torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulting in one death, a black man being beaten with poles, furious counter-rallies by anti-racism protesters, and some unclear...

I had no interest in seeing Wonder Woman. I've never cared too much about comic superheroes and watching the trailer did nothing for me. Upon having finally succumbed, I now realise what the trailer couldn't possibly show me – Wonder Woman is actually two movies...

What is an 'emotional block?' This morning, I released a podcast episode which pretty much covers the purpose of my life's work: helping people recognise and shift their own emotional blocks. But what are they? Emotional blocks are suppressed, unfelt emotions from...