Connor Gurney

Every time that the anniversary of a well-known terrorist atrocity rolls around once again, I think of the words of a woman whose son was killed in one such attack on UK soil and how she “broke the cycle” of hatred by forgiving the men who murdered her so…

A few months ago, I came across the advice that forms the title of this note in one of the many books sat on my reading list for an extended period—The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey—and it’s stayed on my mind a lot ever since.

A few days ago in a land far, far away, I had the fortune to visit a bench.

Just randomly dawned on me that I haven’t met anyone called Imogen in many years.

Putting aside the political angle, which I try to stay relatively neutral on whilst writing here, this graffiti in Manchester city centre provides a remarkably solid foundation for living life more generally.

As Andy Marsh, CEO of the College of Policing, said recently about the media’s trust in policing: “Trust arrives on a tortoise and it leaves on a horse.”

For knowledge-based questions, it seems logical to assume that you’re more likely to ask an AI tool about things that you don’t know much—if anything—about than things you do.

I was on a Northern Rail train recently and did what every autistic train nerd does best.

Just stopped at a train station and used the toilet but the toilet paper was worse than the schools of the 1960s and 1970s… It should be a legal requirement that any toilet roll in public places must be a minimum of two-ply, if not more.

Back when I was a fresh-faced 16 year old, I was in a long-distance relationship (if I can call it that, given the benefit of a decade of hindsight!)