The current health secretary – Wes Streeting – has just announced that injections for weight loss will now be widely available – free – on the NHS.

It’s one of those funny things in life which we give little attention to at the time. But it’s also one of those things – one of those powerful things – which can help us so very much. Call it a Sixth Sense.

Chalk’s a useful thing. It’s good for writing on blackboards – although perhaps less useful for that, nowadays. It’s also good for tennis court boundaries – giving rise to the famous question “Who saw chalk dust?”

It’s a strange thing that some things in life are glaringly obvious to thinking people - including ones as young as six – but not it seems to our politicians. Is it about time we all took a critical look at these political ones?

There are some disturbing narratives being pushed by governments and Big Tech corporations around the world. Taken together, they should prompt us to ask some serious questions about creativity, being human and fairness.

The news of a potential permanent ban on TikTok in the USA felt like a prompt to have a closer look at the current status of the safety of user data in relation to its collection and use by social media companies.