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The weird world of Robin Ince
What, exactly, is the value of a diagnosis? A review of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity, by Robin Ince.
May 9
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April 2025
I visited Britain's most expensive farm track
A dispute over a farm track in Buckinghamshire could cost taxpayers 'tens of millions' in delays to HS2 after local NIMBYs blocked a minor upgrade. I…
Apr 28
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Why does Britain feel so poor?
Plus chaos chasers, ghost motorways, the secret symbols hiding in your street, and a rationalist death cult.
Apr 1
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March 2025
Britain's car parking is a complete disaster
Somehow we've turned key national infrastructure into the wild west.
Mar 18
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M. F. Robbins
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VoN #5: Power to the people (not those ones)
This week's links roundup, featuring bribes for NIMBYs, the value of diagnosis, (hopefully) the end of terrible touchscreen controls in cars, and oh no…
Mar 11
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The war on curiosity
Behind the drive to AI lies a profound anxiety about our big messy world.
Mar 4
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February 2025
2.5% is a ludicrous target for defence spending
It's time to grow up and get serious.
Feb 18
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VoN #4: Can you really live without money?
Shut your mouth, Betteridge. Also: the campaign to stop water from ruining our countryside, how a leading AI accidentally emulated a broken bureaucracy…
Feb 11
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Denial of Service
How Trump - and Robert Peston - broke the news, and why it's probably time to rethink your information diet.
Feb 4
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January 2025
VoN #3: Should Britain buy Greenland?
What attracts smart people to crypto? How much havoc can one NIMBY cause? How did someone magic a £58bn company out of thin air? And why should Britain…
Jan 28
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The end of the playground
In which one playground shuts and another is sealed off from the public before it even opens, in a chilling warning for the future of local government.
Jan 21
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VoN #2: All that for one Pringle
In which AI has an energy deficit, Starmer has a values deficit, the Washington Post has an underpants gnomes deficit, and a Cochrane review of calorie…
Jan 19
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