About

I’m a Co-operative Party member (as of October 2009) living in either the furthest reaches of south-east London or the north-west corner of Kent, depending on whether you’re buying or selling.

The name “Wandering Hedgehog” – a reference to one of my favourite children’s book characters, the disreputable vagrant (with a nice line in hallucination-inducing mushroom stews) from the surprisingly subversive Little Grey Rabbit series – is a reflection of my somewhat wandering political views and affiliations over the past decade.

After a brief membership of the Labour Party last year (followed by some further wanderings described here), I’ve recently joined the Co-operative Party. This may or may not represent a permanent resting-place for this Wandering Hedgehog. On the evidence to date, I wouldn’t bet on it – but the Co-op Party’s long history of being “left of centre but non-statist” is one which resolves the contradictions in my political views better than most other positions.

I’ve been blogging for some years at my main blog, Confessing Evangelical. This site is intended as a separate venue where I can blog about political issues in a way which would sit less well with my main blog and those who tend to read it. For example, not having to explain to US readers who British political or journalistic figures are…