Welcome to
My Garden Armchair

A quiet vantage point on a restless country.

My Garden Armchair is a place for considered reflection on the issues that shape our public and private lives. It is written slowly, with attention to context, history, and consequence — and with a preference for questions that clarify rather than conclusions that close discussion.

There comes a time in life when the pace of the world no longer dictates the rhythm of one’s thoughts. The boardrooms quieten, the deadlines soften, and what remains is the steady companionship of memory, curiosity, and the wide, unpredictable landscape of a country forever in motion.

From my garden armchair, I have found a vantage point from which to observe these patterns with a measure of distance — not detachment — and with a clarity that eluded me during the full sweep of working life.

My reflections are shaped by years spent navigating the fault lines between business, technology, and the human beings who animate those structures. I have watched institutions hold firm and crumble, leaders rise and falter, and organisations lose themselves in the fog of generalisation, blame-shifting, and the very modern habit of confusing motion with progress. These experiences have cultivated a habit of attention: a desire to look beyond slogans and surface tensions, and to understand how intent, context, and character shape the outcomes we live with.

This space gathers those observations — political, organisational, and personal — alongside the lighter curiosities that have filled my armchair over the years: music and humour, history and storytelling, and the small wonders that soften the edges of a turbulent world.

If these reflections offer clarity, challenge, or simply a moment’s pause, then this armchair has served its purpose. You are welcome to sit awhile.