Taking a breather

There are many things I could talk about this week, the "Windrush Generations" issues with the Home Office and UK Border Agency, Anti-Semitism in the opposition Labour Party, The Lords, EU Customs Arrangement and our Brexit all of which are serious, deserving of thought and indeed having matters of some concern too.
Sometimes though as important as any and all are, somehow you feel overwhelmed by it all and that was both a major trigger in the regressed side of my life and connected to some changes around this blog.
For me the walk down that road wasn't the easiest thing to do and indeed physically walking isn't for me but it was necessary to go beyond that busy core where one could instead focus more calming sounds, smells and warm colours and yes take a breather.
That's what I tended to find in politics from when I was directly involved in it, many of problems stem from not taking a break and thinking through how our aims are joined up to the means so we don't see those unintended consequences of our actions or we're so busy with our words that don't get around to making those actions that help translate ideas into clear-cut action.
There is no place in politics for race hate even though we need to have rigorous debate around migration, international terrorism, world affairs and how as a society of many differing backgrounds we do get along with common set of shared values.
Some problems are caused when the people who knew what went on before are let go before the memories are shared with younger staff so you have organizational loss of intelligence.
Ensuring you have that space between to reflect before acting I find makes a huge difference.