This is my last day at Oxfam. Pause for mass sobbing….. But when I explained my plans to keep blogging in some form, including on whatever post-Dexit FP2P emerges, a colleague accused me of resembling some kind of ageing rocker who keeps announcing his retirement, only to reappear within months. It’s quite common, apparently. Seems that bands like Mötley Crüe just can’t let go of the limelight.
So here (to repeat somewhat) is what happens next:
I sign off from Oxfam at the end of today, and head for a more genteel lifestyle of academia, training assorted would-be influencers (the policy variety, not the tiktok nonsense), grandchild-care, the allotment and staring out the window at the rain.
Meanwhile, I’ll go into a huddle with Oxfamistas to work out what my future role will be on the blog. We will draw on the results of the reader survey, so please help out by giving us your views.
Whatever happens, though, I will stop editing guest posts – if you want to write for FP2P, please contact Amit Srivastava (a great editor, btw) on asrivastava2@oxfam.org.uk.
Meanwhile, If you want to stay in touch with me, switch to d.j.green@lse.ac.uk. Despite the enshittification of twitter, I’ll keep tweeting on @fp2p, at least til something better emerges. And there’s always good old LinkedIn. I’ll keep updating the pick of my outpourings on my website.
And I’ll be back here later this week with a few outstanding posts. By comparison, it took Ozzy Osbourne 3 years after announcing his retirement to get back on stage. That’s him on the right, in case you thought it was Amit.
Update: thanks Tobias Denskus for this tribute post, although rumours of my retirement are somewhat premature!