I’ve recognised a trait in myself that I don’t like: judgement is my brain's default mode.

Looking back, I grew up in a time when people unabashedly judged others and it’s a hard habit to break.

But it’s ugly and I want it to stop.

When I was young, in Thatcher’s Britain, the unemployed were told to ‘get on their bikes’ and it was illegal to talk positively about homosexuality in a classroom. Illegal.