Under the Surface
This page collects my thoughts about society. I write fiction with a social conscience which means I like to look under the carpet at the ‘stuff’ we pretend isn't there. I’m not prolific (i.e. annoying) . I prefer that people say - they don’t write a lot, but what they do is worth reading. Sign up to my mailing list to hear when I’ve posted new material.
New Zealand should have compulsory voting
Given the current polls, the election result is impossible to forecast, but what I can confidently predict is that over 500,000 enrolled New Zealanders will not vote…
Distrapathy and Democracy: Why Fake News Isn’t New
Imagine living in a time when people could knowingly create fake news stories that were not only believed, they were repeated as true by large amounts of the population.