Sitemap - 2025 - Odds and Ends of History

Have I ever been a NIMBY?

Odds and Ends #66: The winner of the 2040 US Presidential election is in space

A tale of two theme parks

Spring Mailbag - Questions Wanted!

This road is broken – and nobody can fix it

Odds and Ends #65: Economic growth is core to a progressive agenda

Why we love Luton Airport, and a terrible plan for changing the London Mayoralty

The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test

Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

The Lower Thames Crossing, getting mad at boomers and the scourge of Everythingism

How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it

Listen: How the YIMBYs won

Odds and Ends #64: Why we cancelled our trip to America

Empty climate gestures, Peter Hitchens' timezone crusade, and the big questions about New Towns

The Abundance Vibe Shift

Odds and Ends #63: A major electric vehicle breakthrough?!

The Planning Bill, Lab Meat, and why Milton Keynes isn't afraid of growth

Odds and Ends #62: Right-wing populism is over... maybe... possibly... hopefully

Britain needs a national drone company

Listen to The Abundance Agenda

Odds and Ends #61: Fake Woolly Mammoths

A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File

The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state

Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy?

How to fix the New Statesman

Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be

Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism"

Just Stop Oil is doing more harm for the cause than good

Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people

Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London?

Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news

Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels

The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable

Odds and Ends #56: The awkward truth about Brexit

AI is going to break how schools work – but that will be good

NEW EVENT: How the YIMBYs won

Odds and Ends #55: The left needs to learn to love AI

DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics

Odds and Ends #54: Voters in 2019 and 2024 were (mostly) the same – it was the parties that changed

LISTEN: The future of transport – with Michael Dnes

Britain should ban TikTok

Odds and Ends #53: Now TfL is betting on AI cameras to improve safety

Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes

Odds and Ends #52: A right to air conditioning?

5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan"

New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government!

Odds and Ends #51: Transport for London made a terrible decision and I hope they reverse it

The social justice case for self-driving cars

Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks