Writer on people, systems & food security. Former councillor. Real‑world decisions, lived experience, community insight. 🏉🍒
Cheltenham, England
Joined April 2009
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A debate about whether Gloucester is really a "rugby city" prompted me to write this.
For me, Gloucester Rugby has never been about postcodes. It's about community.
Gloucester Rugby: More Than a City, a Community
#GloucesterRugby #TheShed #GlawsFamily
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Public Judgement Before Private Understanding | Why we often decide who people are before we understand what happened adamtugwell.blog/2026/11/11/…
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The Board We Are Standing On | Why it is easier to see systems in a game than in the world around us.
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The Invisible Candidate: Experience, Recruitment, and the Growing Separation Between Capability and Recognition adamtugwell.blog/2026/11/06/…
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Adam Tugwell retweeted
Jac Morgan has hit the ground running at Gloucester🏉
The Wales flanker has been outstanding since joining from the Ospreys in the summer and says having more opportunities to attack and carry the ball is helping him develop his game 🤩
#BBCRugby
What if Westminster isn't turning back towards Europe because Europe is the answer, but because it's the only answer left that it can still imagine?
The Politics of Exhaustion:
Why Europe is Becoming Westminster's Last Remaining Option
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🌹 Congratulations to the five Cherry & Whites included in the @EnglandRugby A squad ahead of their fixture against Argentina XV at The Rec on Friday evening.
Attack Coach, James Lightfoot Brown, is amongst the England coaching staff for the fixture. 👏
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Adam Tugwell retweeted
Congratulations to Will, Arthur & Seb on their inclusion in @EnglandRugby's finalised Nations Championship squad. 👏🌹
The Companion Guide to Can Meaningful Change Still be Delivered Today - with Free PDF download: adamtugwell.blog/2026/11/02/…
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Can meaningful change still be delivered within the systems we already have?
What began as a search for practical reform within todays constraints became an inquiry into systems, authority, responsibility, judgement and agency.
Read the full text online:
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Disappointing. But this might be the best match for this to happen. The real takeaway could be the learning and given the strength of the season so far, there’s good reason to be hopeful. Still 2nd in the Table! 🍒🏉
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Saints away = a huge test, regardless of the Table. But this Gloucester side has shown it can compete with the best in 26/27. Match the attitude, intensity and belief weve seen so far, and theres good reason to be optimistic. Two top sides, one great game of rugby either way 🍒🏉
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A fish doesn't see water because water is not an object within its environment. It IS the environment.
The same may be true of Britain's political class and explain why things are now becoming so challenging for us all.
The Water Fish Cannot See: adamtugwell.blog/2026/10/31/…
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Perhaps the deeper challenge lies in accepting the agency of others as equal to our own.
Can Meaningful Change Still Be Delivered Today? is now available.
eBook : Tugwell, Adam: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Twenty million households were offered support towards energy bills.
The remarkable thing wasn't the £100 payment.
It was that almost nobody found it remarkable.
Nobody Was Surprised 👇
#Budget2026 #UKPolitics
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Difficult to see this as anything other than a massive vote of confidence in what’s happening at Gloucester Rugby - and it’s brilliant news. Well done Glaws! 🍒🏉
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Workers are struggling. Small businesses are struggling. Rather than asking which side is the problem, perhaps we should be asking what created the conditions hurting both.
My latest piece: 👇
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Campaigning is about winning trust.
Leadership is about proving that trust was justified.They're not the same thing.
Read Britains Most Dangerous Assumption:
#Leadership #UKPolitics
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Nobody Knows The Story Like The Author | Full Text - Understanding the realities, responsibilities and rewards of the Human Journey when the opportunity of Personal Sovereignty and the circumstances and choices that lead to and from it are considered fully adamtugwell.blog/2026/10/26/…
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