King Willy & Dave have announced you can get £1m for your bestest idea to save the planet, so here’s mine. You can have it for free as long as you make it happen somehow. I can’t be arsed and anyway I don’t know how. Now this is actually just…

Climate change is like quantum mechanics in that if you think you understand it, you probably don’t. By which I mean that both are vast ideas; far more vast and ephemeral than can be neatly snapped into our brain. Certainly not mine. Climate change is not what my old boss…

Dear everyone: Get some fucking sleep. What’s wrong with you people? You can’t be Jesus Christ Almighty if you don’t get enough fucking sleep. I’m 40 now and I don’t want this to sound like one of those muffly ‘things I wish I knew when I was your age’ posts…

This is a slightly tweaked version of a column I originally wrote for BusinessGreen, published on 1 August 2018. My favourite Radiohead song is How to Disappear Completely. …

Perhaps, I hope, it was just the general thinklag of being back at work. It’s just that I found myself sitting at work today completely bloody freaking out; sat hunched in front of a computer, unable to do anything useful at all, even though something needed to be done. The…

Earlier this year I gave up drink for a month. It was an unambiguously marvellous experience. I’m currently working on writing something proper about the whole thing. Until then, here’s an unexpurgated diary entry for one of the days. Day 18. In the pub last night, a shout of aggression…

Written on Orkney, 10 January 2017. Reading John Vidal’s valedictory letter and it is today impossible to feel anything but despair. Sometimes I feel this breed of panic, a fraying at the edges, a sinkhole opening — too much has been done, and too many insurmountable things must be surmounted. …

Tomorrow is my ten year vegan-niversary. Ten years without meat, dairy, eggs, fish, anything like that. If it had a face, or came out of the sex parts of anything that has one, I’ve tried very, very hard not to put it inside me. Yay me! Right? Well I’ve definitely…

I’ve thought about it and aargh, I think Brexit is going to happen In my personal opinion — and everything that follows is distinctly that — a vote to leave the EU on June 23rd would be an act of ugly and jingoistic barbarity. …