Sitemap - 2023 - The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

A festive selection box

It’s A Wonderful Life

Who brings Christmas presents around the world?

Rishi Sunak is no Taylor Swift

No room at the inn

The rules of succession

Questionable Statements

Way Down In The Hole

The signalling paradox

Book Club: Some notes on the limits and pleasures of machine translation

Would you recommend me to a friend?

What if we’re thinking about productivity all wrong?

Decline and Fall

One big happy family

The case for Labour housing radicalism

Can Things Only Get Better?

Book club: Some notes on flying ant day, and other such swarms

Forecasts and predictions

Bad leadership

Autumn journal

The Thick of It’s Ian Martin on the trouble with Starmer

And the schools came tumbling down

The Empires Strike Back

Empty classrooms

This Things I Believe

Where did it all go wrong?

Darkness Rising

On Barbie and Oppenheimer, inevitability and guilty

A roundabout way to utopia

Nick Timothy’s London and the anecdotal fallacy

I’m back, and asking: why shouldn’t Cambridge be the size of Bristol?

Treasure hunt

When poor people occupy land without paying, it’s squatting. When the rich do it, it’s parking

How to lose a battle without really trying

A pause

All Change

Missing links

Never So Bad

How do we know what 21 degrees C means?

Epistemological nightmares

The big issue

A short history of the borders of Eurovision

Measure for Measure, Step by Step

Locals and imperials

Cold grey rivers and wine-dark seas

Meanwhile, in Rishi Sunak’s head

The Streisand Effect

The trouble with “failing”

Whisper it, but Labour is still on course for majority government

Orange blossoms

Lies, damned lies and the Elizabeth Line

Names and numbers

Oh, Lord

Use of Weapons

Changing values

Grey-sky thinking

…And I feel fine

Everything old is new again

They’re dead but they won’t lie down

Phantoms and chimera

Bangs, and other unintelligible noises

New year, old me