Tom Anderson has spent his life living the dream. A lifetime following his passion led him to becoming a beer brewer at an iconic Liverpool pub and brewery.
We chatted about the similarities between artists and beer makers, why micro breweries are enjoying a resurgence – and what Lego has got to do with it all.
Show Notes
My phone buzzed. It does that a lot. It was an email. It was from a colleague called Bryan. He was asking for something. It was important.
He’s a mild mannered sort of bloke. But he confessed that sometimes he feels rage.
“When people I’m close to knowingly do stuff that’s just straight-up disrespectful and they don’t care? I can’t see straight”, he said. “I turn into Rage Bryan!”
Your heart aches. You need to tell somebody. You long to be able to reach out to those closest to you and open up. But you don’t. You bury it down. You wish you could trust that sharing yourself would be okay. You wish you could bank on it that the experience would be nourishing.
James Noakes is an elected politician. He is the Mayoral Lead for Energy and Smart City for Liverpool City Council.
He is also part of the Incubator of Change company, that specialises in how to future proof public policy.
In this conversation, we talk about how public policy is being shaped by technological change. We look at how politicians and policy makers use innovation. We discuss how the big data revolution and artificial intelligence impacts political decisions.
When I was a little boy, there was a popular TV show that aired on a Saturday evening called The Generation Game. Some of you may remember it.
Contestants from the general public competed with each other in a series of games. The iconic finale was a memory test game.
When I go jogging, I like to listen to podcasts. They keep my mind busy as I run. This is good because it distracts my mind from how tired my body is. So jogging is easier for it.
Each time I jog, I choose a podcast to download and take on my run with me.
Dr Keith Jensen is an animal behaviourist who got interested in the animals that are human beings.
Interestingly, he digs deeper into human psychology by studying chimps, other apes and monkeys.
I spoke to him to find out what non human primates have to teach us about what makes humans tick. The conversation was fascinating.
I’ve been irritable this week. Ironically, given my last post, politics has been the stimulus.
No sooner had I decided to ease back from my life long interest in the political world, that all Hell let loose.
A referendum pulls Britain out of the European Union. The nation is divided almost 50/50. The markets collapse. Billions are wiped off the value of shares. Economists talk darkly about the prospect of another recession.
David Renton is a barrister, author and historian. He is also the only person I know who went to Eton College.
Eton is the UK’s most iconic private boarding school. It has educated 19 British Prime Ministers.
David takes us behind the scenes and tells us what it was like as a child who didn’t fit in at Eton.
I’m sat in a political meeting. I’ve been there for 3 hours already. Like most people present, I’ve not spoken. The few who have spoken ensured that they took their time. Why say something with 5 words that one can say with 55?
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