Alan Simpson

Coffee and lemons don’t go together that well

Monotonectally predominate emerging deliverables without holistic information. Dynamically embrace cross unit quality vectors before innovative initiatives. Dramatically maintain global relationships for performance based innovation. Monotonectally...

Everything you ever need to know about flowers

Credibly empower enterprise wide mindshare for excellent "outside the box" thinking. Proactively mesh impactful meta services rather than enterprise results. Professionally generate end-to-end human capital holistic networks. Authoritatively...

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The times, they are a-changin’

The geo-politics of implosion These aren’t the changes Dylan was calling for. His was a ‘get out of the way’ message from a generation eager for more optimistic, transformative and inclusive change. There’s no such...

The Sound of Silence

A politics beyond breakdown It’s hard to focus on anything other than Gaza at the moment. Its incessant bombing won’t have had anyone celebrating Paul Simon’s 82nd birthday by singing “Hello darkness, my old friend…”...

Après le déluge

Where does Labour go now? Parliament starts the new decade with Labour still in a state of grief…and anger…about its crushing election defeat. It’s a good place to start. If we’re brutally...

A Feast of Fools

What happens when politics gets lost? British politics has lost the plot. Rishi Sunak isn’t a clever charlatan like Boris Johnson. He’s more superficial; a cartoon ‘bear with little brain’. His grasp of issues is mainly...

Net-zero, not-zero and ground-zero

What a mess we are in. Labour loses the Hartlepool by- election with a 16% swing to the Tories. A new North-South divide is opening up. With the exception of London, Labour no longer holds the hearts and minds of its...

The Battle of Hastings and beyond

August is the silly season in British politics but behind the scenes something important is happening. There’s a new ‘Battle of Hastings’ brewing. This has nothing to do with the Norman conquests. But its consequences...

“Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall …”

A new politics of friendship Oh no! Just when Keir Starmer should be rebuilding parliamentary friendships he goes and picks a fight with them. And the crime of these Labour rebels? – defending disabled people from...