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...

As the Labour Party took it's "jump to the left" this week, we saw firsthand how " madness takes its toll." Th...

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

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...

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...

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

The Economist article on The Question of Extractive Elites certainly resonated with me last week, as it did with those involved in the s...

On Wednesday I attended the launch of The Faith of Generation Y by Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Bob Mayo and Sally Nash, which the Daily Telegraph ...