A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.

I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.

I used to think that technology could help education. I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem.

Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.

Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.

Not knowing who my family are.

Not standing up to bullies.

“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.

Throwing up all over the red velvet seats in the House of Lords on a school trip, aged nine.

Bees humming in a tree of blossom.