Blog posts

30 September

Sharing music on my blog

22 September

Sharing games I've played on my blog

9 September

Moving my website from Jekyll to Eleventy

25 July

More LGBT+ MPs than ever before

29 May

Help me to update the list of LGBT+ MPs

16 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2024 entry, so you don’t have to

6 April

Parliament and Government should be in the fediverse

15 March

Open policy making meets agile comms

2 March

Push the button

17 February

Broadcasting my philosophies at work

4 February

Life stack

1 January

Setting some goals for 2024

28 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2023 goals

28 December

Things that went right in 2023

9 December

Recipes are broken

31 October

Making “Webmentions” look more conversational

2 September

A decade of public service

30 July

Into the Fediverse

23 July

A parts bin iPod Classic

1 May

I listened to every Eurovision 2023 entry, so you don’t have to

6 February

Calculating the cost of my subscriptions

1 January

Setting some goals for 2023

24 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2022 goals

31 July

Thoughts on Apple Fitness+ from a fitness newbie

20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2022 entry, so you don’t have to

1 January

Setting some goals for 2022

31 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2021 goals

1 May

I listened to every Eurovision 2021 entry, so you don’t have to

28 January

Why I quit Instagram

31 December

Setting some goals for 2021

21 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2020 goals

11 April

Building a Twitter bot for the ‘Department of Administrative Affairs’

4 April

I listened to every defunct Eurovision 2020 entry, so you don’t have to

28 March

How to be a better communicator when your team is working remotely

23 March

How to hold better video and telephone conference calls

26 February

Doors should not need instructions

24 February

Why I made a dataset of LGBT MPs

18 January

On the occasion of my death, do this with my digital footprint

31 December

Setting some goals for 2020

26 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2019 goals

9 December

Apple’s peculiar typographic choices

1 September

Being an LGBT+ ally should feel uncomfortable

14 July

Trying out the new Citymapper Pass

2 June

Creating a scoreboard for my Eurovision house party

20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2019 entry, so you don’t have to

26 January

I’ve fallen in love with a USB connector

31 December

Setting some goals for 2019

18 December

Goodbye Facebook

16 December

I’m going to fail at nearly all my goals for 2018

5 December

#LGBTsurvey: things that didn’t surprise me

4 December

#LGBTsurvey: things that surprised me

28 November

Living with Apple Watch Series 4

11 October

I lied to my hairdresser

1 October

#LGBTsurvey: why it’s important

10 June

How TfL keeps screwing me for delay refunds

21 April

On European city taxes and tourism

18 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2018 entry, so you don’t have to

31 March

Hey Siri, bring the beat in.

17 March

“Opening up”

18 February

The most broken junctions in Westminster

4 February

Theme Hospital and gender equality

23 January

What do you call a collective of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people?

20 January

Facebook’s ridiculous plan to crowdsource news trustworthiness

3 January

Setting goals I might stick to for 2018

12 May

Diversity: don’t civil servants have something better to be doing?

21 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2017 entry, so you don’t have to

16 January

I made a Twitterbot to tell people the obvious

2 November

A 21st century health service: fax machines, print outs and misinformation

21 August

What happened when my blog post went viral

14 June

To my heterosexual friends: this is why Orlando hurts

28 May

A week abroad with Revolut

5 May

A year with Apple Watch

23 April

If data isn’t actionable, it’s not useful

17 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2016 entry, so you don’t have to

10 April

One week with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

12 March

Text mining tweets from the 2016 BRIT Awards

7 March

You’re queuing it wrong

26 February

I couldn’t be more happy being out where I work

7 February

Surviving a week with Apple Pay

30 January

How will the functional model affect Civil Service diversity networks?

29 November

Apple TV - the revolution is coming, probably

18 May

Two weeks with Apple Watch

27 April

Who would win Eurovision if population size mattered?

20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2015 entry, so you don't have to

15 February

Text mining tweets from the 2015 BAFTAs

8 February

Your privacy is not the enemy

7 February

Quantified Self: analysing my Twitter data using the R statistical package

28 August

Is it time for All Under-25 Shortlists?

24 August

Card clash is a catastrophuck

7 July

Why content blocks on the Internet are bad

4 February

Are we all expendable?

23 August

How do appointment processes affect the policy outputs of monetary policy committees?

9 June

What factors have contributed to the spread of ‘liberal economic institutions’ cross-nationally?

9 June

Why does central bank independence vary across countries and over time?

1 June

What factors explain the decision to dissolve the Financial Services Authority?

24 May

Is speciesism as bad as racism?

22 May

How does the method of aggregating votes influence the outcome of elections?

16 May

Is equality intrinsically valuable?

11 December

The gender revolutionaries

8 April

Are majoritarian or proportional electoral systems better?

8 April

Does Hobbes’ employment of natural rights take him in an absolutist direction?

26 October

The Dearing Compact is dead

24 October

Fees or taxes? That is the question.

15 December

The Importance of Learner Voice in the 21st Century

10 December

The Challenge of Student Engagement