Paperback out July 3rd - pre-order now!

Paid six-month internship at The Economist, working with on the Britain desk

And here it is. #OnlineSafetyAct ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

As the paperback comes out this week, I wrote a small SubStack on why I didn't need to update anything...

A powerful data story from history, adapted from Technology is not the Problem for Significance:

take a step back from the noise with this wise little thread about knowledge, judgement, and purpose:

I adapted this section of Technology is not the Problem for Significance - the use of data at its best and worst. You can draw your own lessons about how we should approach digital ID systems today (no simplistic analogies please!) significancemagazine.com/punch-cards-co…

Looks like my piece on technology and migration just got topical again:

Quatorze Juillet greetings to my French friends: Liberté, égalité, fraternité!

Unscripted blackouts: I wrote for UnHerd about the theatrical anticlimax that sparked my curiosity about the UK's energy infrastructure. unherd.com/2025/07/do-lon…

Me for UnHerd on why blackouts on stage are just a symptom:

Jef Bourgeau A sudden calm, 2024

Labour thinks voting is less consequential than buying cigarettes. No wonder they keep ignoring what voters want

I wrote about AI and the creative industries for UnHerd (before taking a long weekend off in the real world)

It is the Feast of St Clothsend, 6th C Abbess of Metz, who once sent a boat without a rower to take a monk across the river Seille. She is patron of driverless cars.

We're thrilled that author, data-journalist and information designer David McCandless Information is Beautiful will be delivering the Significance Lecture at the 2025 RSS Conference in Edinburgh in Sept. ow.ly/hvYi50Wv8Zt Want to attend? ow.ly/Nzu650Wv8Zu Royal Statistical Society International Conference

online retailer who never delivered my order: "Please, leave us a review! Go on go on go on go on..." me - 'you failed to deliver my order or even communicate with me' "now give us your name to post" me - 'unimpressed' "that name is already taken" me - 'very unimpressed' "that

"Of course, any appeal to “safety” in the context of a comedy show is mere sleight-of-tongue, a specious justification for the curbing of artistic freedom." Andrew Doyle hits the nail on the head as usual: