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. Next page