Wednesday, 29 November 2017

The Basil Fawlty delusion of Southern Rail, and why it matters

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This post wafted in from the Radix site... The story so far. Govia Thameslink won the franchise to run the Southern rail franchise and t...
Friday, 24 November 2017

The real reason house prices keep going up (it isn't what they say)

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This post first popped up on the  Radix  blog... The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and m...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Dear blockchain, here are your ancestors...

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Vinay Gupta is a fascinating man, graduating from developing simple yurts to support refugees anywhere to working out the deeper implicati...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

The choice before the Brexiteers: open society or Chinese-style capitalism?

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This blog first aired itself on the Radix blog site... It’s a funny thing, but Michael Gove’s defence of Boris Johnson , following his ...
Monday, 6 November 2017

A century on from the Cottingley fairies...

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When I wrote my first novel, Leaves the World to Darkness , I had been determined to write a novel for grown-ups about fairies. A serious ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Why The Death of Stalin seems worryingly familiar

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This post first appeared on the Radix website. We had what my youngest son used to call an ‘insect day’ at my eldest son’s school on Mond...
Monday, 30 October 2017

The energy and experience of small-scale publishing

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Regular readers of this blog, should there be any, will know that I also run a small - not to say micro - publishing enterprise called The...