The Value of Nothing

A podcast about growth and progress.

Unexpected stories from the underbelly of the modern world

A Substack on the connections between politics and the economy from the author of Why Politics Fails.

Thoughts on elections, public opinion and politics. The Swingometer is named in honour of the late Sir David Butler, inventor of both "swing" and the device to illustrate it on television.

Simple mathematics and statistics ideas to make sense of the world with data and graphs

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Hi! The internet made me go insane. Perhaps you, too, have been driven insane by the internet. Let us consider the madness of the internet here. Journalist, author of the book TOXIC, big Britney person.

Thoughts on UK and EU trade policy.

A weekly brain dump.

Markets, tech and policy.

Reflections on progress, politics and society, written from a British perspective.

Why that thing you retweeted is probably wrong.

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.