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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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VoN #4: Can you really live without money?
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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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VoN #3: Should Britain buy Greenland?
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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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VoN #2: All that for one Pringle
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VoN #1: No bat death is acceptable.
In which we learn that one bat is worth 11-16 years of human life in Britain, that I once tortured James O'Malley in a desert, and the true meaning of…
Jan 12
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Britain’s car market is a complete disaster
In which the nation's most average driver tries to buy a new car and realises we’re all poor now.
Jan 7
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