Sep 3, 2026
Has the health service got any better? Is the education system
more fit for purpose? Have the potholes got any shallower?
I recorded a version of this episode at the start of the year and
never released it. Six months on I have re-recorded it, because I
think it is something you need to hear. This one is not scripted.
It is a plea. I have spent the whole of this year asking you to ask
better questions, and this is me turning the question on myself:
how does one person make any difference to a system that feels
broken?
I talk about why voting for a different party keeps giving us a
different shade of icing on the same cake, why I think we have
abdicated responsibility for our own finances and our own
communities, and what happened when I stopped worrying about
climate change and started a Facebook group called Englefield
Garden Greenies that ran for three years. I come back to the talk I
gave in 2015 on responsibility, enough and contribution, and to a
night drive through Cuba that changed what the word enough means to
me.
Then I ask you for something. What questions should we be asking?
Who should I be speaking to? What could you bring, whether that is
an idea or a skill? Email me, comment, or shout at the podcast. I
would rather start a conversation than sit here waiting four years
to put an X on a piece of paper.
EXPECT TO LEARN:
- Why business ground to a halt around the last budget, and what
that pattern says about the months ahead
- The halfway point between fixing the whole world and staying
inside your own bubble
- Why swapping one government for another keeps producing different
flavours of vanilla
- The sequence of questions that opens up when you start with "how
can I make more money?"
- How a Facebook group called Englefield Garden Greenies started,
and what it achieved in three years
- Where AI genuinely helps with a local problem, and where it takes
you straight back into your own bubble
- Why donating to charity can be a way of handing responsibility
over rather than taking it on
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Change, chaos and disruption
01:31 How has the year been for you?
02:24 Why uncertainty stops people making decisions
04:10 The New Estate, and the conversations I always wanted to
have
05:05 A world on the edge and the end of empires
07:03 Two-party politics and different flavours of vanilla
08:08 Twenty years on: potholes, wages and the health service
10:07 Not a revolution, a change
11:07 What local action could actually look like
12:22 South Kilburn and the Englefield Garden Greenies
13:34 The question I want you to answer
20:23 Why I nearly did not release this
22:42 Responsibility, enough and contribution
25:04 Cuba, South Africa and what enough really means
27:04 Why writing a cheque is not contribution
30:57 We can still shape a wealthy life
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