So those of you who know me, know I’m not short of a view or two.

I use social media extensively, but while I often focus on recurring themes, I’ve tended to fling my thoughts out in Facebook status updates and the odd tweet thread, rather than collecting and cataloging them over time.

So I’ve decided to create a blog – or a trove as I prefer to call it – to give myself a dedicated space to unpack and express my ideas and reflections in more detail than a tweet or Facebook post on the move allows. It also gives me something to return to and more easily use as a reference point to develop arguments down the line.

I use the word trove because I think it’s a rather delightful and under utilised word in a modern context. A trove is defined as a store or collection of valuable or delightful things. As such it will focus on my passions – liberal conservatism,  political ideas more generally, public policy, films and popular culture..  I’ll leave my support for Everton aside as it’s less of a “passion” and more a source of misery these days!

Daniel Cremin.

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