Thursday, 6 December 2018

Statistics are people, with the tears wiped away

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--> Note : this is a previously unpublished blog, that I wrote back in 2013 or 2014 (and 'found' years later on an...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Momentum: the quickest campaign outfit on the block?

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Momentum comes in for a lot of criticism from the media. I can’t but help think that this is in large part a consequence of the success th...
Wednesday, 12 September 2018

The curse of unlimited choice: music technology

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I’ve never been a fan of the Steve Jobs, Elon Musks and Peter Thiels of this world. But, the German music tech entrepreneur (sound engin...
Thursday, 6 September 2018

Hayek, astroturf and centrism

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I n my efforts to understand astroturfed political campaigns, I decided to read Hayek’s polemical essay ‘ The Intellectuals and Socialism’...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018

A letter to the patrons of the CAA

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All reasonable people should be working hard to ensure Antisemitism is stamped out and that the issue is not inflamed. Unfortunately a p...
Friday, 24 August 2018

'Cults’ 'Cranks' and understanding fake news

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‘Cranks ’ recently became a shorthand to describe a particular group of social media campaigners who support the leader of the UK oppositi...
Friday, 15 June 2018

A lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its boots on (pt2)

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I like a bit of symmetry in my social media content. So, after Tuesday's post about how fake news outruns truth on Twitter, I’m followin...