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Is Openreach inadvertently helping Reform?

Mapping Labour's tribes (Odds and Ends #97)

The nuclear energy gender gap

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)

Martin visits the Bat Tunnel!

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

I'm mad as hell about a tram

Why Artemis is inspiring – despite Trump

Dude, where's my tram? (Odds and Ends #94)

Save the Car Parks!

Britain seems to have taken the worst possible position on the AI/copyright debate

Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

Why we need seven bins

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)

Let Mayors Cook

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 NHS Data Goldmine

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

HS2's gravel nightmare

The left is missing out on AI (Odds and Ends #87)

How I've used AI to improve my work

Europe needs better rockets

Jon Stewart is bad again (Odds and Ends #86)

Can Reform ever be YIMBY?

Does AI make you stupid?

Theories of power, cattle grids and a blep (Odds and Ends #85)

What even is an 'AI growth zone', anyway?

Universal's troubled waters

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

NIMBYs vs Bristol Zoo

Somehow, HS2 to Manchester returned

Possible Manchester reader meet-up?!

Bodge-up and Badger

Hitting pause for a month!