Family! As one of my friends says ‘they made your buttons, so of course they know how to push them’! And most of the time they don’t even realise that they’re doing it.

Could the UK actually learn something from its Church? It is unusual times when the Church can be seen to be more progressive in certain matters than the State but this may actually be such a time.

Whether in the boardroom or bedroom, most people do not like conflict: and for good reason. Human beings are social in nature. Our brain circuitry is built to fit in with our group and to set off alarm bells when we deviate from it or may be excluded.

What’s all the fuss about mediation? Does it really help? Here is the article I wrote for the UK Journal of Mediation explaining why sometimes there’s no substitute.