About
I originally started this website as an alternative to sending so many emails to friends and family, imploring them to check out this or that.
Since then it’s become a good outlet for frustrations, ideas and for the development of website and writing skills. It also came in rather handy when I had something important to say.
My main audience is friends, whānau and—most importantly—me. 
For those of you who aren’t friends or family, I’m from Aotearoa New Zealand. I was once told I was wasn’t radical enough to be an anarchist so I like to call myself a conservative anarchist. I live and work in London—as senior architectural technician for a small firm designing social housing. My favourite job here in London used to be uncle but, alas, my wonderful sister and her gorgeous family finally packed up home to New Zealand after 11 years in London. Since then I’ve immersed myself in what is a very rewarding job in architecture.
I’ve been politically active throughout parts of my life but despite being variously labelled one—to make a good headline—I’m not a “peace activist” or a “pacifist” and never have been.
My political actions have always been preoccupied with justice. Although I myself have personally made mistakes in this area I believe absolutely that one can be faced with a moral duty to use violence.
Political activity for me has been an indulgence; at no other time have I felt more alive than the human shield action to Iraq, and what better way to indulge in life than to undermine those who seek to stamp it out?
Why is this website called Last Straw?
The last straw is an idiom meaning that somebody’s had enough and derives from another idiom, the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” Between the threat of a war to end the world emanating from the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the development of biological weapons, human caused planetary devastation and peak oil I think our world is close to having it’s back broken unless we can change our ways. A friend once said to me that life can be viewed in two ways, as a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy, but to me it’s more like a story waiting to be written.
I also have an interest in straw bale construction and this website was to include information on my work in this area but I went on to other things and subsequently decided to maintain it purely as a blog.
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