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A Moment of Stillness in Bicester
Yesterday evening in Garth Park, I joined local residents, uniformed services, community groups and civic leaders for a quiet gathering to remember Jennie Logan, Martyn Sadler and Dave Chester—three lives lost in the recent fire at Bicester Motion. It was not a formal service, but a community coming together—simple, sincere, and respectful. Reverend Peter Wright…
Lunar New Year at Oxford Town Hall
This afternoon, Mark and I had the real pleasure of joining around a thousand people at Oxford Town Hall for the 2026 Lunar New Year Celebration, organised by Oxfordshire Chinese Community & Advice Centre. Lunar New Year is the most important festival in the Chinese calendar. It is about family, tradition, food, colour, music and…
Scouting and politics
This is a translation of an interview with me, published in the Czech Scouts’ SCOUT WORLD MAGAZINE · WEDNESDAY, 24 APRIL 2019. The views expressed are entirely my own and not the policy of WOSM, The UK Scout Association, or Junák – the Czech Scout Association An interview with former WOSM Vice-Chair, John May, on…
From Saewold to Weston
Tonight I had the pleasure of speaking to the Bicester Local History Society at the Clifton Centre, kindly invited by my good friend and fellow villager, Bob Hessian. It was a wet February evening – the sort that would have given everyone a perfectly respectable excuse to stay at home – yet the room was…
Hearing the Young Unheard – Oxford Breakfast Conversation
This morning I chaired another of this year’s Breakfast Conversations, this time hosted by Oxfordshire Youth at their offices in Oxford Business Park. It was wonderful to be welcomed by the team and to see so many people – young and adult alike – gathered with a shared purpose: to explore what it really means…
Roaring On
There is something rather wonderful about the end of term. Schools empty. Teachers exhale. Parents begin wondering how many days it will be before someone announces they’re bored. And youth organisations across the country somehow summon the energy for one last concert, performance or celebration before everyone disappears for the summer. Those who know me…
