Omar Thorne

Walking is free, works for nearly everybody, and has no equipment attached, which is exactly why you never hear about it…

It is also genuinely harder than it sounds if you live somewhere with no pavement and a dual carriageway between you and anywhere.

Nobody finishes books and we have all quietly agreed to lie about it.

Fiction gets finished, non-fiction does not, and treating them as the same object is why everyone feels guilty.

I cannot do a phone call any more and I genuinely do not know when that happened.

It is unannounced calls, not calls. Nobody minds one that was arranged, everybody minds the phone going off with no warning.

Nobody has ever explained to me why we accept that a phone lasts three years.

The battery is glued in, the software stops, and both of those were decisions somebody made rather than facts about physics.

First past the post keeps producing governments that most people voted against, and we keep describing this as stability…

Better represented, not better governed. You get parliaments that look like the country and coalitions that nobody voted for.

The best decisions get made quickly. The ones that drag on for months usually dragged because nobody wanted to say the o…

Quick decisions are best where the cost of being wrong is low and the cost of delay is high. That describes a lot of decisions and not the important ones.

Home advantage is mostly the crowd, and the empty-stadium seasons proved it — it shrank, it did not vanish, and what was…

Referees are the mechanism and the crowd is the cause. Nobody gives a soft penalty to silence.