Pragmatist

I've been involved in tech since the mid-90s, have experienced the rise and burst of many 'bubbles', and have been writing about...

As the majority of voters in the western liberal democracies - ironically labelled the "liberal elite" - work their way along t...

You may have received a letter from your local NHS trust, giving you the chance to opt out of the NHS plan to share your health records wit...

In Part 2 of my response to Google's 'computers vs people' meme , I explained that humans can win the war for economic con...

There's been a lot of heat rising from Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent assertions about a "race between computers and peopl...

Oh those poor, poor bankers. Now, we're told by Spear's , that the new 'retail distribution' rules have made their lives ...

It's been a difficult month to finish this post. Every day another dollop of decrepitude is revealed amongst our rotting institutio...

My appetite whetted by this week's local electoral melodrama, I've been searching for some Class A political journalism to feed m...

Whether you loved or loathed her, you have to be impressed that 23 years after she was hunted out of office Margaret Thatcher's funer...

Having recently made the same point , I'm encouraged to see the London School of Economics setting out in detail some of the ways in...

In "India Grows at Night" the writer and commentator Gurcharan Das shares his insights into how India's growing, pragmatic...

At the recent London New Finance session on Big Data in Finance , Mark Hookey of Demyst.data suggested that a more accurate profile of a...

This decade is not going well for Britain’s institutions. The 2010 election did not magically restore our faith in a scandal-ridden Parli...

The resignation letter of the BBC's latest director-general reveals deep flaws in yet another of the UK's self-serving institution...

Ignore confidence tricks. As the LIEBOR scandal claims a few scalps , let's not be distracted. As Bobby "Dazzler" Diamon...

How time flies when you're having fun. When not engaged in rethinking personal data , I've been experiencing the deep joy of reth...

There's a lot of concern about how to grow the UK economy. Some have pointed to banks and the public sector as ' the enemies of g...