Tag: politics

  • England’s Hidden Housing Subsidy

    With all the fuss on (my) Twitter about social housing in London, I thought it’d be worth trying to understand things using public data. It turns out, England’s social housing system delivers a £21 billion annual subsidy that I’ve never seen on a manifesto or in a spending review, and is overwhelmingly concentrated in the…

  • Words that mean nothing

    The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is on and OH MY GOD. To say that they don’t half wang on is an insult to the idea of wangs. Or on. Or something.

  • Social Media is Gambling: Let’s treat it as such

    Fine—you drove me to it. Last time I posted about this I hit the number 1 spot on Hacker News and was (rightly) skewered for not providing a solution—just listing a bunch of problems. This time…I have answers.

  • Banning Things for Other People is Easy

    Australia has moved to require social media companies to prevent under 16s from holding an account, and there’s always talk of us following suit in the UK. I want to talk a little today about why I think that’s a bad idea.