Human-centred decisions
Britpop has been having a moment again this summer, prompting investigations into why the scene fizzled out. The conventional explanations are unconvincing. Electronic music tells us why.
I have complicated feelings about the apparent imminent demise of Twitter in the hands of a reckless owner.
One of the (many) strange features of the coronavirus outbreak is that in many ways I feel busier than I have ever been. It is almost three weeks since I was last in my office, yet I haven’t had the time to commit my thoughts to writing.
This post is about how a policy (crashing out of the EU) that will do nearly everyone harm and some great harm seems to have considerable, albeit still minority, support… You either have to assume that a third of the population has gone mad, or instead see this as a fundamental failure of information. The […]
The media — and society in general — has gradually drifted away from listening to expert figures, in favour of practitioners. But it is leaving us less enlightened.
It has certainly been interesting to receive emails from so many companies I have no recollection of doing any business with.
The root of TSB’s IT disaster comes from the very beginning of its life.
I am no fan of Facebook. But I am less than impressed with the media’s coverage of Facebook as well.
We often think of commuting as wasteful and inconvenient. But is it entirely negative?
People often claim that if you do not vote then you automatically lose your right to have a say in any way. This idea is dangerous and wrong.
A survey showed that the British public is “wrong about nearly everything”. But the main lesson is not that so many people are stupid. It is that we are all ignorant, no matter how well-informed we like to think we are.
