Politics ⁽⁹⁾

I took a picture of London from the top of the North Downs in 2017 after I was so struck by the visibility of the pollution hovering over the city. Last week I stopped again at the same spot and took roughly the same photo.

A story in this morning's Guardian perfectly illustrates the policy incoherence that runs to the heart of the current government. It concerns Britain's National Cycling network, a linked chain of over 16,500 miles of cycleways which are used by half the number of people who…

I'm a great supporter of driverless cars. I think they have the potential to dramatically change the world, making much better use of resources, revolutionising mobility for all and radically improving our towns and cities. Paradoxically, however, I am not so keen on Phillip Hammond's…

This is a post over which I have been pondering for quite a while. While the debate rages on daily about whether AI (specifically AGI) is humanity's great saviour or the biggest existential threat we all face, several stories which have emerged over the past…

The unforeseen nature of Donald Trump's victory yesterday, and before that of the Brexit Leave Campaign, say something quite profound about the way in which US and UK populations now consume their information and form their views. As the Independent said today, it was the…