Just saw an invitation to an Open Space “How do we protect and strengthen democracy in Europe?” My mind went immediately to how to protect democracy from those who will use elected office to make sure that democracy isn’t available any more.  It’s not a simple thing.  And that’s what makes it a good question for Open Space – these things need talking through, with a load of different people, to get to understand all of it, rather than it just being my point of view.  I mean, I know (in this instance) that I’m not wrong, but how we make things safer (here in the UK it’s pretty urgent) with the current state of public discourse isn’t clear.

This is all I managed on the train to Hard Art.  Despite what I imagine when I'm walking to the train station, experience shows that I'm not going to do much proper writing in the forty minutes to Waterloo.