I love reading media stories that connect to my work. Unfortunately, many focus on the harm and the silence of others. However, one story made me smile and allowed me to look at what helps to motivate action as opposed to inhibiting it. It involves a shark called Bukangi and unity. Something quite wonderful is … Continue reading From Bukangi to Bystandership: How Unity Can Inspire Us to Act
Bring Him Home: How Love, Loss and Longing Can Inspire Us to Act
Sometimes the experiences that hurt us most can help us understand why it matters to act when someone else is in trouble. Over the weekend I visited in London with my wife. Whilst in Covent Garden, I heard a song that has the power to stop me in my tracks and to make me cry. … Continue reading Bring Him Home: How Love, Loss and Longing Can Inspire Us to Act
Your Country Needs You
Why building a safer society requires more than intelligence, policing and the instruction to “See it. Say it. Sort it.” There are moments when a speech should make us stop and think about our own responsibilities. In his annual speech on 13 October 2026, MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum highlighted a significant shift in … Continue reading Your Country Needs You
Do we really know who we work with?
Some of you reading this may have read a previous blog I wrote about the drama ‘Tip Toe.’ Starring Alan Cumming and David Morrissey, the drama presented a range of messages which I feel were missed by many who focused on the violent act that we saw in the first minutes of the first episode. … Continue reading Do we really know who we work with?
From “Don’t Be That Guy” to “Be the Guy Who Speaks Up”
The allegations emerging from Cornell University in the United States have once again raised difficult questions about male peer culture, sexual behaviour and, perhaps most importantly, male silence. The details of individual cases must be established through the appropriate processes, but there is a wider question worth asking: What happens when men see behaviour from … Continue reading From “Don’t Be That Guy” to “Be the Guy Who Speaks Up”
