About
LiveWorkDream is Glen Birkbeck's publishing home for UK policy analysis, practical resilience, and the work of Fleur Lamont Ltd.
Glen Birkbeck
Glen is a UK-based technical systems developer, learning management professional, and project manager. He founded Fleur Lamont Ltd, sets editorial direction for everything published here, and is the author of The Country That Works For You, the European Technology Risk Assessment, and a planned resilience series.
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What LiveWorkDream publishes
- The Country That Works For You: a free delivery programme for Britain, sector by sector, with costs, trade-offs, and sources you can check
- The Long Cycle: essays and video on how Britain reached managed decline (on the blog and YouTube)
- Geopolitical commentary: energy, food, supply chains, and UK economic outlook, published as events warrant
- Resilience series: household and community resilience in the UK — work in progress (books)
The blog does not run to a fixed schedule. The pace depends on what is actually happening.
Editorial approach
Analysis is grounded in primary sources: government publications, official data, documented evidence. It is structured and direct.
Every blog post carries a risk level (Low, Medium, High, or Critical) so you can triage quickly. Critical means something imminent and significant. Low means background context or historical framing.
The tone is direct and occasionally dry. Glen does not trade in alarmism for its own sake, nor in hedging that hides what the evidence says. When something looks serious, he says so. When the evidence is mixed, he says that too.
Research and drafting use AI-assisted workflows under Glen's direction. Everything on the site is reviewed for accuracy and judgement before publication.
Fleur Lamont
Fleur Lamont Ltd is Glen's UK technology company. It builds and hosts LiveWorkDream and develops practical software where AI judgement has to stay under clear human control.
Asguard is a daily companion for older people living at home, and a reassurance layer for families — warm conversation, medication reminders, check-ins, and memory capture, delivered primarily via Telegram. It grew from Glen's own experience: caring for family, losing his parents, brother, and sister, and sitting at funerals wishing he had asked more while there was still time. It is in beta; families can register interest at asguard.app. It is not a medical device or emergency service, and not a replacement for family or professional care.
Lamont Works is a governed AI operations control plane for owner-run firms: capture work, draft actions, approve what leaves, and keep durable state. Early and being commercialised — already a real showcase alongside Asguard. See both on the Fleur Lamont products page.
Books
Two free editions are available now: The Country That Works For You (the delivery programme on this site) and the European Technology Risk Assessment (ETRA). A resilience series on household and community capability in the UK is planned and still taking shape.
See the Books page for details and download links.
Contact
Use the contact page to get in touch.