Carole Edrich

Can air travel be accessible to disabled people and environmentally friendly? Columnist Carole Edrich was dispatched to a training day hosted by Aerobility & 4Air. "When I was very much younger, adventurous, and up for any kind of extreme sport...

In the seventh of a series of articles charting the experiences of a Wanstead-based travel writer, Carole Edrich discovers how widely read Wanstead Village Directory is… and that being an oddfellow pays off.

The super-accessible Flanders Fields Museum starts with a screening of Belle Époque splendour, wealth and optimism. The same screen’s back shows the era’s shadier side. My bracelet’s chip has....

In a flow state on assignment while travelling, columnist Carole Edrich takes us to Girona. "I have an on-assignment flow state (a kind of extended hyperfocus) that is somewhere between excitement at the unknown, mindfulness as I take it all in...."

Brussels South Station is Zuid in Dutch. You’d think it would be Sud in French. That would be way too easy. One writer, one Interrail pass and a wildly over-ambitious, 37-stop journey to test railway accessibility in Europe..

A satirical glossary of AI governance terminology from 'agentic' to 'tokenisation' by a risk management professional who knows what governance actually means

One writer one lnterrail pass & a wildly over-ambitious, 37-stop journey to test railway accessibility in Europe. Lille Europe Station makes me think of Blade Runner with its awe-inspiring architecture. At first glance, it seems pared-down...

Why cosmetics regulation outpaces enterprise AI governance — and what proportional risk, cognitive offloading, and post-Mythos HITL look like in practice.

A consultant falls asleep on the train to Durham and wakes up with a governance thesis.

Yesterday, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. It’s terrifying. Not in the AI-will-take-over-the-world way, but in the Risk-And-Governance-Just-Changed-For-Good way.

Jurisdictional complexity, cognitive biases, and too many halves of me. Still searching for home in Brussels. Word game. Count the steps as you descend.

What if the most durable record of a company's existence was designed to be binned mid-flight and why it's important that AI inherits the archaeology as well as the packaging.

Schaerbeek walks, Woluwe returns, cube-shaped trees and Magritte's grave. Feeling out of place in Brussels - and finding where you fit. Word game. Count the steps as you descend. (part 4)

A neurodivergent (ADHDiva) writer's update on travel, AI, accessibility and everything in between

Social equity compounds. Ledgers don’t. Here’s why it matters.

"The train sings, the world slides by, and I’m in that restful state you get when lulled by the rhythm of a train. The physical distance from London is already helping my perspective. My troubles aren’t on the 10.47 train to Ypres. Sadly, nor am I."

Aloft Brussels, a 120-minute detour through Laeken, pavement surfaces that ruin wheelie bags, and learning to love a city's idiosyncrasies. Acrostic inside. Count the steps as you descend. (part 3)

Why I talk about Claude like a person, flinch at 'normies', and think we're optimising for the wrong things.

Walking Brussels hotel by hotel. Le Plaza's scent, Cirio's dubious drink history, and corners best not lingered on. Word game. Part 2

Finding home in Brussels by staying in 14 hotels. Place du Luxembourg, expensive cologne, disgusting coffee. Ixelles. Elsene, Eurozone, Plux, Deciding where to live, hotel by hotel. acrostic (part 1)