“What we need is democracy, not government by secret algorithm.” Cori Crider, director of the technology justice campaign Foxglove The news that the Home Office…
“What we need is democracy, not government by secret algorithm.” Cori Crider, director of the technology justice campaign Foxglove The news that the Home Office…
It is a strange divide in society. Some people furrowed their brows when I told them I was publishing a book called Tickbox, and really…
Those of us brought up with Dad’s Army, and similar Second World War domestic dramas will remember the phrase: “Don’t you know there’s a war…
When my Tickbox book came out, the only vaguely negative review I received on Amazon was from someone who decided that, because I wanted to…
I want to explain why my medical colleagues and I feel so angry and frustrated about the protection offered to us by the government, and why…
The American anthropologist Polly Wiessner used to spend a quarter of every year with the !Kung bushmen in southern Africa. When she got home to…
It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. It is a time of excitement and of fear, of enthusiasm and exhaustion,…
Which example would you nominate for Tickbox of the Year – what I called in the Evening Standard yesterday, examples of “the stupidification and hollowing…
The politically correct, like the poor, have always been with us. Take Noel Coward, for example, who was virtually drummed out of the country for…
Here are the three most egregious versions of tickbox that I have run across in the last few days… First, the government’s proposals to reform…
It has only been a fortnight since the publication of my Tickbox book, but the trickle of background information that was beginning to emerge when…
This month, I have published two contributions to what I hope will be a new debate about the insane and unhumane system that is attempting…