If you don’t want a consultation to give you answers you won’t like, here’s what to do. And if you’re a respondent to that kind of disingenuous process, here’s how to have your say anyway.

A couple of years ago someone said to me that they like my newsletter, Digital Education, although it looks a bit old-fashioned. I thought about that, and whether I wanted to update the look of it, but decided not to, for two main reasons.

This is an updated version of a post on my Substack newsletter from a few years ago, with bits of another of my articles thrown in for good measure.

I went for a medical consultation recently — don’t worry, nothing terrible. As James Cagney so memorably put it in one of his films, I ain’t dead yet.

Paul Black, R.I.P.