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I am incredibly honoured be giving this year’s State of the Nation Lecture at Cambridge Lit Fest on Saturday 25 April, 12pm, in the beautiful setting of the Cambridge Union. My talk is entitled: “A Kindwashed Nation? Who Counts, What Counts and Making Britain Care Again” (1/4)

It draws upon everything I've learned from my years in the NHS & as a journalist & author. It boils down to this: a fundamental, fierce conviction that the simple acts of care we extend to one another are not only the vital glue of human existence, but also our radical superpower. (2/4)

We are facing a crisis of carelessness. Care is being undermined from every direction – from corporate kindwashing to the tech bros’ definition of empathy as weakness, from populist politicians stoking grievance & hate to the notion that if it can’t be counted, then it doesn’t have value. (3/4)