This week I was channeling Jack Kerouac. I managed visits to Defra offices in Worcester, Weybridge, Crewe and Warrington. Caught nine trains, missed two connections, stayed in the most run down (but friendly) Travelodge of my career and witnessed an epic road rage incident. It was an interesting week though — it started with conversations about an…

A picture tells a thousand words. Well this week will forever be associated with rather larger and more depressing events than my working week. I made the mistake of checking in on the US election at 3am when I woke up and that was the last sleep I got that night! There are all sorts of…

interveneɪntəˈviːn/verb take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events This is my word of the week. I feel like Robert McCalls younger, weaker and dumber brother — ‘The Intervener’. I’m Captain Carrot — the stick comes from elsewhere. My role is crystallising around a particular remit and it is something new…