Sitemap - 2024 - Odds and Ends of History

Why even car-hating urbanists should support building the Lower Thames Crossing

Here's how the LibDems can replace the Tories as the Official Opposition

Free the PAF! Watch the video of my Postcode Address File talk last night

Rewind: We're about to witness the first "extremely online" Tory opposition

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know what to do with them

We should save the High Street by densifying our town and city centres

A Disney World-style queuing system could prevent a Brexit-induced border meltdown this Christmas

Why I changed my mind on nuclear power

NEW EVENT: Why Britain needs nuclear (and how we can build it)

What I've learned after a year of serious Substacking

The melding of identity and serious disorders seems like a bad idea

Come to my talk about the Postcode Address File!

This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File

No, the government isn't planning to introduce ID cards

No facial recognition? No problem! How London Bridge tested tech to track individuals inside the station

The riots don't have any greater meaning

Manchester should bid for the 2036 Olympics

Being normal is how you win a culture war

Labour's targeting was too ruthless

We should let the government actually do stuff

Why I'm not a fan of the Good Law Project

Odds and Ends #40: Has Labour already made a mistake?

We can use infrastructure that already exists to protect our ecosystems

Keir Starmer is extremely good at politics

The seats I'm watching on election night

The rationale for dumping Biden is unassailable

An unavoidable battle over road pricing could destroy Keir Starmer's government – here's how he can avoid disaster

Sherlock and House are to blame for the cult of Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk

Odds and Ends #39: A stupid election take that annoyed me

It's mad that this important piece of our election infrastructure is run by a bunch of volunteer nerds

Why fixing government tech is a nightmare (but not impossible)

The "Labour has no plan" attack makes no sense

How to fix Newsnight

How to fix Newsnight

This is the best thing the Tories did in office

Here's how Network Rail is using that crazy AI camera tech

Odds and Ends #38: A critical British data asset is at risk in the Royal Mail sale

Odds and Ends #37: How I'd win Eurovision for Britain

I'm worried that Britain's electric grid is massively unprepared for AI

Odds and Ends #36: Don't lose your mind if Sadiq Khan loses

This TfL AI experiment reveals how Tube station capacity could be increased – without building anything new

Odds and Ends #35: The business of Taylor Swift

Taxpayers shouldn't subsidise the enshittification of local news

How to use NHS data for scientific research – without creating a privacy nightmare

Odds and Ends #34: How the Cass Review changes the Trans Forever-War

Music has just changed forever and we should be freaking out more about it

WHN Bonus Episode: New local news

Owen Jones is leaving money on the table by staying at The Guardian

I arguably memed the House of Lords into debating the Postcode Address File

Odds and Ends #33: Saluting our Millennium Bug heroes

This is the "Q" I'm worried about

Odds and Ends #32: My big Kate Middleton theory

Odds and Ends #31: Britain's new AI supercomputer is a shipping container in a car park

You can't always tell when you're on the right side of history

Odds and Ends #30: These are the *real* London "No-Go" Areas

We could make our homes easier to decarbonise by using a crazy, sci-fi technology called a "database"

We're about to witness the first "extremely online" Tory opposition

Odds and Ends #29: How Thorpe Park was held back by Britain's planning laws

Odds and Ends #28: How Fortnite is at the heart of a new Brexit dividing line

🚨 The House of Lords could liberate the Postcode Address File if they back this amendment 🚨

TfL's AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying

Odds and Ends #27: What GB Energy will actually do

Odds and Ends #26: Least crazy candidate wins

It would be mad for Labour to dump the £28bn climate plan

Odds and Ends #25: Exclusive! Salisbury Zizzi struck by health and safety problem six years after the poisonings

Odds and Ends #24: Inside the Nerd Deep-State

There's a technology built into our cars to make driving safer – but we're not using it.

Odds and Ends #23: It's all in the game, yo

Local journalism is killing itself – but here's how to fix it

Odds and Ends #22: HS2's Manchester leg might live again. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully.

Here's the plan to actually liberate the Postcode Address File