Kester Brewin

Now he is gone, all I can hope is that memories will be lunar: that the deep impressions you made with those first footprints will remain, windless and unstirred, giant leaps, forever ingrained in Tranquility. Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong. A quiet, huge gravity, courageous and inspirational, has left for another orbit. Gutted. Safe travels, [...]

With the news that the CofE has come out (h-hmmm) and said that it is gravely concerned about the effect of gay marriage on the Church and its relation to the state, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some history… A good friend, when hearing about what I was writing, [...]

Some thoughts to share on sharing thoughts… “If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” George Bernard [...]

Burning Men To those obsessed with fire to the book-burners and plane hijackers the flag-lighters and napalm sprayers: you are no children of the gods. Your father is not Prometheus your gift is not the divine spark lifted from behind mean Zeus’ back fanned out on the earth in good cooked food and light in [...]

Thanks for the comments on the post about happiness the other day. I’ve been mulling over the idea of happiness, and why we are perhaps the most unhappy society ever, and linking it to a new direction my thinking seems to be being drawn in. As I’ve written before, I’m really interested in the charred [...]

Very interesting programme on Radio 4 today about the carbon cost of our digital lives. Increased use of digital technology can have green benefits with reduced travel etc., but we what the piece uncovered so well was the huge energy draw that data centres create. Each time we upload a picture to Facebook, or request [...]

What’s the point in having a 42 day detention limit for terror suspects… if the best intelligence we have is just left lying around on trains?

You guessed it. I’m going through one of those ‘bored of blogging’ phases. With TSK pumping out on average 5 posts it’s not like there’s a paucity of stuff for people to read. Sure it’ll pass. Or may be it won’t. The sun’s shining, so I’m not fussed which.

Champions. Premier League and Europe. Great match, well fought, but the best team won it. Come on!!!

It looks like you’re going to win. One simple message, from a city that in the last 8 years has got greener, more tolerant, more vibrant and taken radical steps to improve public transport: Don’t Fuck This Up. Please excuse my language, but this is a place I care about deeply, which is genuinely at [...]