Sitemap - 2026 - Odds and Ends of History
Access to AI compute is a social justice issue
How many MPs can you remember?
James and Martin rip off More or Less
We should turn East Anglia into Europe’s Shenzhen
Andy Burnham can talk human (Odds and Ends #109)
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical
Why the net zero consensus is over (Odds and Ends #108)
The case for Nightingale Datacentres
Throwing the baby out with the grey water
The case for Nightingale Datacentres
We’ve seen the future... in Belgium
Andy Burnham’s first YIMBY move (Odds and Ends #107)
Whisper it, but AI might not be a bubble
My trip to Europe's craziest border (Odds and Ends #106)
Stop arguing about Net Zero badly
Martin's household solar megaproject
My solar odyssey (Odds and Ends #105)
It's time to tunnel with dynamite
The new plan to dynamite the Peak District (Odds and Ends #104)
Four takes on the new Burnham cabinet
How Britain can get ahead in AI
I'm worried that Andy Burnham isn't serious
Britain is quietly fixing its airspace problem
The truth about UK data centre water usage
Great British Failways? (Odds and Ends #103)
Autonomous cars do not have to turn Britain into an America-style car-centric hellscape
The new war on delivery robots
I went on an Amazon propaganda tour
Britain needs a national drone company
The Manchesterism theory of growth
Labour should fight Reform by pitching a "Gamer's Charter"
The Burnhamocalypse (Odds and Ends #102)
I probably had a weirder referendum week than you
Here's how the government is using AI to speed up the planning system
I have a mildly contrarian take about the SpaceX valuation (Odds and Ends #101)
Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them
How the Swiss would have built HS2
The government quitting Twitter won't stop Musk (but they should do it anyway)
Real Manchesterism has never been tried (Odds and Ends #100)
We finally (sort of) know what the National Data Library is
Why space data centres might actually work
Data centres in space might actually work, sorry (Odds and Ends #99)
Japan is an urbanist, YIMBY paradise – and a bureaucratic nightmare
The problem with Secondary Legislation
Watch my acting debut (Odds and Ends #98)
Has Liam Byrne had his Weetabix?
A thousand Chinese Robotaxis could lock down London
The BBC's anti-Universal theme park bias
Is Openreach inadvertently helping Reform?
Mapping Labour's tribes (Odds and Ends #97)
The stars are aligning for proportional representation
HS2's next disaster might be the trains
An expert debunks James's bad opinion
I don't know how to feel about Palantir
The gender divide over nuclear power (Odds and Ends #96)
The Green Party is STILL bad at being green
NIMBYs vs... a cancer hospital
This Michael Palin guy is actually pretty good (Odds and Ends #95)
This is my most left-wing opinion
Why Artemis is inspiring – despite Trump
Dude, where's my tram? (Odds and Ends #94)
Britain seems to have taken the worst possible position on the AI/copyright debate
Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)
British robo-wine and fixing rural transport
'Woke' might not be the enemy, but it still deserves critique
SNL UK wasn't a disaster! (Odds and Ends #92)
The government is fixing something I complained about (Odds and Ends #91)
Britain's geospatial data is a huge mess
Reform has a point (about this one, very specific thing)
The battery breakthrough we've been waiting for? (Odds and Ends #90)
The stars are aligning for proportional representation
A few choice words for SNL (Odds and Ends #89)
Some actual good news for once!
Bikes and battle cruisers (Odds and Ends #88)
It's time to abolish Natural England
How to use NHS data for scientific research – without creating a privacy nightmare
The left is missing out on AI (Odds and Ends #87)
How I've used AI to improve my work
Jon Stewart is bad again (Odds and Ends #86)
Theories of power, cattle grids and a blep (Odds and Ends #85)
What even is an 'AI growth zone', anyway?
Matt Goodwin's ideas are a dead end
Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it
Somehow, HS2 to Manchester returned