Parole by election
John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK:
Maybe it’s because there’s a possibility that on November 3 something might change in the US, whereas we in the UK are stuck with the worst government in living memory for another four years. So we’re like long-term prisoners serving time and looking enviously over the wall at our fellow-prisoners in the US who might just be paroled on November 4.
Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and editing them for later reference by trainees, I no longer detest the sound of my own voice.
I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces of the old village concealed within more modern housing.