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2021v10, Monday: Put yourself in the picture.
No-one gets elected unless they can tell a story enough people want to be part of. Will Labour ever learn that lesson again?
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2021v7, Friday: Finding family.
Why I welcome the fact that I ache. And a quick link to a writeup of one of the most interesting Supreme Court cases around: Lloyd v Google.
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2021v5, Wednesday: Stories.
On learning advocacy from story-telling, across genres and styles. With a plug for Carly Simon, John le Carré, and a recent opponent of mine.
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2021v3, Monday: Miscellany.
It's a bank holiday. I have to work. So I'm afraid a linkfest will have to do. With a quick shout about sleaze at the end.
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2021v1, Saturday: What's measured matters.
When measures become targets, they're useless as measures. But when something isn't measured at all, it's invisible...
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2021iv28, Wednesday: "A bloody computer system killed my brother."
More on the Horizon scandal. And yes, it's a scandal.
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2021iv26, Monday: An affront to justice.
Firstly - sorry for being off-schedule. Exhaustion, I'm afraid. Back to work, with a few words about the wholly shameful tale of the Horizon prosecutions.
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2021iv19, Monday: Privacy and the Supremes.
One of the most consequential cases on the law and privacy makes it to the Supreme Court next week. I'll be watching. And some great stuff on gaming and public panic.
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2021iv16, Friday: The king of the Ponzi?
Madoff's dead, but fraud lives on. A short history of the Real Book. And the importance of prioritising economics over culture wars.
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2021iv14, Wednesday: Equality, of a sort.
Equality in principle is very different from equality in practice. As we’re seeing in the Greensill affair – and as a French writer cynically and beautifully put it many years ago.
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2021iv12, Monday: Covid theatre.
We knew everything we needed to know to make people far safer from Covid a year ago. If there’s an inquiry, the question will be: why did we rely on hygiene theatre for so long?
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2021iv9, Friday: (Not) getting things done.
Has productivity fallen because we're all doing things we're just not that good at? And tech's perversion of language.