M.B. Baker

M.B. Baker writes for readers who are curious about the world we are living in, how we got here, and what happens to individual human beings inside it.

Her essays move between public systems and private lives: governance, justice and politics; education, work and illness, climate, technology and differently wired minds; human capacity, death and meaning. They return again and again to power, stewardship and expendability: who gets to decide, what we protect, who is asked to carry the cost, and what and who we sacrifice.

While serious, the essays are rooted in the belief that we are capable of better. Her writing grew from senior roles inside organisations, from lived experience, and from a long habit of reading, listening, watching and noticing what people and institutions reveal.

M.B. Baker is a pseudonym, used to keep the focus on the work. She lives in the UK with her husband, their teenage daughter, a beagle, a golden retriever, and two Siberian cats.