So here's the exciting news of the day: we're a charity and we've just launched a new crowdfunding site. Which we built by ourselves. Now you'd have to agree that crowdfunding is hot right now, it's been the subject of a Huffington Post TED weekend, every tech blogger is banging...

Quite a few people who I like and respect have spoken to me recently saying something along the lines of 'Can you believe they are telling us we should give prisoners the vote? Why the hell should prisoners have the vote?' These people seem surprised when I tell them that...

Do we need quotas to get women into the board room? It's a debate that keeps on raging. Most recently on 10 O'clock Live with David Mitchell asking David Starkey and Natalie Haynes what they thought. It's a shame they asked David Starkey to argue against quotas (although not a...

Tonight I'm off to run around a car park in a tracksuit and fake Ugg Boots carrying an Argos DVD player. Despite living in Croydon this isn't a usual Thursday night, my theatre group are filming a video promo for Macbeth.

I can just about remember a time...