Why don’t we do it in the road?
Oct 31, 2021
community
We party in the street from time to time and help each other where we can. But we are not the first to do it.
The democracy of narcissism
Oct 24, 2021
politics
The Sixties heralded a new era: the personal became political. Or, Andrew Marr argues, it just suited a new economic system: politics was replaced by shopping.
The rest is silence
Sep 1, 2021
software
Breaking the silence around tacit programming
Bergh Apton revisited
Jul 25, 2021
journal & poetry
Return to a country house
What makes a language flourish?
Jun 7, 2021
software
What makes certain programming languages flourish while others languish? What have natural languages to teach us in this?
A duty of care
Jun 1, 2021
politics
What might fairly be described as the greatest inter-generational injustice ever inflicted by one generation of humans upon the next.
Crispbread economics
May 16, 2021
food & wellbeing
Swedes know things. About economics.
Learning vector programming
May 15, 2021
software
In learning q most of us have to drop the habit of edging into a solution with loops and think instead in vector operations. The transition can be both awkward and exhilarating.
The Underground
May 12, 2021
arts & poetry
I come late to Heaney. The pleasure is all the sharper.
The Post Office scandal
May 11, 2021
politics
The managers who prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters to conceal faults in the Post Office’s accounting systems must be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
A plea for simplicity
May 8, 2021
software
With respect sir, I think you will find that it does have a use, and it will fucking bang things.
BoJo the clown
May 7, 2021
politics
Is the prime minister Britain’s best clown ever?
Days are of two kinds
May 6, 2021
wellbeing
Days are of two kinds, alike and not
Trollope
May 3, 2021
arts & wellbeing
Some people grasp early in life that the world is not divided into saints and monsters. For the rest of us, there is Trollope. I wish I had read him earlier.
What we saw in Roswell
May 2, 2021
journal
The smart money is that we are not alone. That will change the way we see ourselves. Forever.
The orkestra bows out
May 1, 2021
arts
The Orkestra del Sol ends fifteen years of channeling musical anarchy from Latin America and the Balkans. Good luck — and thank you!
Imagine Hampstead village and South End Green with no through traffic
Apr 30, 2021
cycling & politics
Changes to the road network to promote active travel create congestion. It’s not the plan gone wrong; it is the plan.
What makes this so dangerous
Apr 29, 2021
politics
They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Rural rides
Apr 22, 2021
journal
Working from my mother’s flat in Hampshire this week. Lunch at the local pub, reached by a walk through the woods.
Crank it up
Apr 18, 2021
arts
If elevator music deadened your ear to the energy of The Four Seasons, you are not alone.
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