I help people to think and to write. I live in London. I work at the UK Parliament.

Previously at AOL TIME-Warner, TIME Inc. and Trinity Mirror.

Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another. — Hannah Arendt

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing

Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. — Iris Murdoch

… the pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals. — Mark Fisher