I am a New Zealander living in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom. I have a degree in teaching and various other bits of paper accumulated over a lifetime of careers and preoccupations. Born in 1953 and raised in Wainuiomata. If I have any political leanings they are socialist and, contrary to the old saw, the older I get the more socialist I become.

If asked my religion I always reply ‘philosophical taoist’. Unless there is an option on the form to write ‘none’. What underpins my humanism is the simple realisation that what is real is real and that for which there is no evidence should not be treated as real.

And you ?