The Price of Initiative just collapsed From libraries to large models: why the next divide is between people who try things and people who don’t. I was in New York last weekend and went to The …

Not the best blogging start to the year… but not for lack of ideas! It’s been an odd start to the year, with a lot of headspace going towards

From Zach Moss

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

This will be the fourth year of writing an end of year reflection, I guess that makes it a ritual? Of all the writing which I try and mostly fail to

We’ve had some external help to think through how we update our advance decision form. Our previous update cycles were too long, and we’ve suffered

Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…

Weeknote, w/c 13 October 2025

After last week’s write-up about the NHS FOI workshop we ran, the outstanding task was to basically decide… what next? Often when I run workshops,

Over recent weeks I have found myself thinking about the country we live in, what it feels like and what I like, and love, about it. I guess I found myself thinking about this because of the summer w...

In May this year I went along to observe a hearing at the Court of Protection. It’s something we at Compassion in Dying do sometimes as the

In May this year I went along to observe a hearing at the Court of Protection. It’s something we at Compassion in Dying do sometimes as the

Forgive me father, it’s been 258 days since my last weeknote. It’s bad, very bad. There’s something about the name weeknotes isn’t there, when you

A free webinar to consider what’s needed to build a successful campaign to help people make end-of-life decisions that are right for them.

It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

Could digital technology help move care closer to home? This long read explores how community services use digital technology and what the future could – and should – hold.

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do

We ran a team workshop to discuss our internal knowledge base idea. I think it went well, it felt as if people spoke quite freely which isn’t always

So we finally launched our content on best interests decisions. Months of research, writing and iterating. Probably our biggest exploration on any

My last weeknote explained how I’d been playing around with the GOV.UK Prototype Kit to mock-up our page on best interests decisions. It worked

We released a report last week which showed medics are still really bad at communicating DNR (do not resuscitate) decisions. It’s pretty depressing

We finally got round to putting our first content iteration of our webpage on best interests in front of staff this week. I always find these a bit

I read a few things in the past few weeks which reminded me how important good writing, and writers are. In difficult moments, I think society needs

Bit of a slow start to 2024. But, we’ve finally got a list of findings from our research into best interests decision-making. We found these blogs

Looking back at my reflections at end of 2022 I’m struck by how much there was to ponder. Some really big things. I thought about funeral literacy