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Odds and Ends #16: The tech guy making the world worse
Surprisingly I'm not talking about Elon.
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You can't cancel the gender wars when the policy questions are unsettled
Policy questions need policy answers
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An important parking infrastructure decision is about to be made – and I feel like us nerds can help make it right
A side-quest for my readers awaits
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Labour must pledge to safeguard the HS2 route to Manchester
It's time to break the rules to save the future
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Odds and Ends #15: Look at these cool transport graphs and diagrams
A special issue of Odds and Ends for the ultra-nerds
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The left should stop being 'Intellectual Zambonis' for bad ideas
Pretending a bad idea is good for political reasons doesn't help anyone.
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Yes, I'm actually serious: The British government should buy Twitter
It's the soft-power bargain of the century
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Odds and Ends #14: Don't be a climate doomer
Plus housing news that is good for me but deeply terrible for the country
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I had a meeting with the Shadow Business Secretary about the Postcode Address File (!)
Meme the change you want to see in the world
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Odds and Ends #13: My terrifying AI Israel/Palestine experiment
Plus Nate Silver cites... me. And why I secretly quite like Dominic Cummings.
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Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
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Odds and Ends #12: Arnie is the guru who can deprogramme the alt-right
Plus Greta's unwise activism, complaining about podcast apps, and an infuriating Tube memory game.
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Why that thing you retweeted is probably wrong.
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