Alastair Meeks
Lawyer, writer, Zedra
- On housing in London: 1) there's no solution that doesn't involve a lot of building. 2) the continuing determination to avoid the third dimension is close to freakish.
- The happiest people are rarely the most successful. The most successful people are rarely the happiest. The core of happiness is satisfaction, a sense of having enough. That sense is the enemy of the highest achievement. So choose which is more important to you and pursue it.
- Why are so many American cartoons so poor? This is a very tired joke, dully executed.
- From the dayjob, my thoughts on a Pensions Commission (on p127): www.pensionsage.com/pages/Digita...
- I’m wholly unsurprised by this story. Irredentism is mainstream in Hungary. I tweeted this three years ago.
- More Reform voters think straight people face job discrimination than think LGBT people face job discrimination. Ditto white people vs people from ethnic minorities, by a wide margin. Glue sniffing appears to be rife among Reform voters.
- One of my unpopular opinions: while cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree was obviously a bad thing to do and clearly needs punishment, the way in which it is being portrayed as a blasphemous desecration of nature is now seriously OTT.
- It’s fairly easy to reinvent yourself midlife if you have built up career capital as well as financial capital to support the change. If you haven’t, an airy article isn’t going to help much.
- Whatever your view of this case, this article is just incompetently put together. It fails to explain at any point what Ms Packer had been put on trial for or why. The journalists were so keen to express their outrage they forgot to do the basics. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- A year ago today I was in Aarhus. Its dockland redevelopment is stunning.
