There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, that we

The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning objections,

A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. Nobody has scheduled

Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. A record that keeps needing

There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water supply...

There is a particular kind of latecomer who is not chaotic but precise. Not vaguely late — exactly late. A quarter of an hour, every single time, as though they had set an alarm to guarantee it. I have

Walk down almost any English high street outside the prosperous south and you'll get the same experience... a vape shop, a barber, three charity shops, a Greggs, and a long stretch of shuttered frontage

I've just been plodding along this last week, building up that base! So just three short easy runs... 17 August... Headed out to the local park for an Octopus session, no point doing these on the track,

Ministers of every party enjoy telling us that Britain is a leading digital economy. The claim is usually made from a stage, indoors, on wifi. Try making it from the 14:37 to Exeter, somewhere around Taunton,

Every few years, when turnout disappoints, somebody dusts off the Australian solution. Make voting compulsory, fine the refuseniks a tenner, and watch democratic legitimacy come flooding back. With Andy

There's a particular sort of shop you'll recognise instantly on any British high street in 2026. The lighting is aggressive. The window display is three shelves of neon liquid and a life-sized Grinch.

The Financial Times' Lex column recently suggested that policymakers who look enviously at New York's glut of new listings should cheer up, because comparison is the thief of joy and things are not quite

There is a video doing the rounds of Andy Burnham eating pork scratchings in a pub, and another of him having a genial chat with Gary Lineker. Neither of these are news but together they tell you rather

Two years ago, if you were a governor or a mayor, an AI data centre was a gift. Billions in investment, a photo opportunity with a tech executive, a press release about jobs. Now it is the thing most likely

Rose Horowitch has an article in The Atlantic which argues, more or less, that we are living through the second fall of the Library of Alexandria — only this time nobody has burned anything down. We've

So I've got a new running strategy, focussing on base, build and race phases... it's pretty obvious which each is. Three cycles a year I'm gonna go for. ATM I'm in my first base phase, this means mainly

So I did what any good investor would do and checked in with the semi-exclusive Discord group and gleaned from an obscure thread of conversation that rules of the game I've Vested in over the past four

Ofcom just slapped Virgin Media with a record £28 million fine, basically because they've been making it deliberately difficult for customers to get help when things go wrong. In addition to the fine Ofcom

Christian Wolmar, writing in the Guardian and reprinted in last week's The Week points to an interesting trend in the growing size of cars in Europe, which are growing a centimetre wider on average every

Well here we are in August and it feels like it's September... honestly everything feels like it's so early... the corn is ready already, courgettes in full swing, tomatoes about to glut it feels like...