I am beginning anew. Left-leaning, former academic, long-form thinking. Interested in deep time, law and culture, and the ways places shape people. Georgian and Victorian architecture, history, art, the life of people's minds. And singing loudly in the car. Words. Literature. The coast is restorative to me — harbours, weather, salt in the air and hair. The sea. The briny. Can’t go past an historic graveyard, an old Church, an old prison and an Italian meal. Family originally from North Ireland. A typical day involves work, walking, reading, wine, politics, tending the garden and the meow.