Diary of an estranged Briton

From May to November 2024, my life became a cycle of applications, hopes, silences and refusals. I applied for more than 150 jobs during that period. That number still feels almost unreal when I look back on it. It was not for lack of experience, not for lack of effort, and certainly not for lack […]

I left my family in Thailand. I flew out on 2nd May and landed in London Heathrow on 3rd May 2024. Even writing that sentence now feels heavy. There is no clever way to dress up departure when what you are really describing is the moment you walk away from the people you love the

There are times when public policy feels distant — something debated by politicians, campaigners and commentators in rooms far away from ordinary life – generally something abstract. And then there are times when policy walks straight through your own front door, inserts itself into your life and rearranges your family beyond your imagination.  For me,