Oct 14, 2021Member-onlyThree Throbbing Tips to Make Your Code Sing, from a Non-CoderCode with your heart, not with your head I remember turning up on my first day at Code Hall, with my soft pencils, my forceps, and my Prima Official Sudoku Guidebook in hand, not knowing quite what to expect. …Coding5 min readCoding5 min read
Sep 20, 2021Member-onlyJudge Sentences White Supremacist to Read Some DickensConsider yourself… alt-right! Consider yourself… part of the furniture! According to the Leicester Mercury, a “Nazi sympathiser” was referred to the anti-terrorism Prevent programme soon after turning eighteen years old, but continued to download right-wing propaganda and bomb-making instructions. Aged twenty-one, he found himself in court on terror-related offences. He…Terrorism6 min readTerrorism6 min read
Aug 25, 2021Member-onlyThe Dressing-up BoxA story from a country where no one gets taught how to behave at funerals For reasons that were never fully explained to me, the will had to be read straight after the service. My aunt, and her damp husband, were keen to get back to the airport, and this…Mwc Death4 min readMwc Death4 min read
Aug 24, 2021Member-onlyWhen Your House Lives in YouOur great-grandparents’ deep understanding of time and space is something we may never be able to grasp It didn’t matter how early you got up in the morning, my Oma was already awake. You weren’t allowed to go out into the garden until she’d had her post-breakfast walkabout. I’m not…Mwc Space4 min readMwc Space4 min read
Aug 24, 2021Member-onlyFrom Space, Billionaires Can’t Hear Us SchemeWhy an Atmosphere Re-entry Tax would give Bezos, Branson, Musk and McDuck something to think about We’re slowly emerging into something that resembles the pre-pandemic world, and yet some of our planet’s wealthiest inhabitants want to leave us behind completely. Taking the idea of social-distancing rather too literally, billionaires stopped…Mwc Reentry7 min readMwc Reentry7 min read
Aug 23, 2021Member-onlyI’m a Human Error, And That’s OkayHow to stop imposter syndrome from turning into deserter syndrome I’ve always been embarrassed about my aversion to maths, and my general phobia of all things statistical. Spreadsheets slick and dripping with data might spark joy in one of my super-smart colleagues, but for me they have all the appeal…Mwc Work7 min readMwc Work7 min read
Published in The Haven·Jun 19, 2021Member-onlyWhat should our Paralympic and Olympic athletes do with their free condoms?Athletes have always been showered with a carnal confetti of contraceptives, but what can they do now that Covid has screwed them once again? Pro-athletics and prophylactics go together hand in glove, so to speak. In an Olympic year, the watching world pores over the medal tables, and we obsess…Humor7 min readHumor7 min read
Jun 10, 2021Member-onlyThe Day of the TrychopathsFake it until you make a killing The Corporate Psychopath Is there any demographic more perfectly primed for corporate success than the psychopath? Films, podcasts and pop-science books have taken this notion and bludgeoned us with it, cold and unsmiling, for years. …Business6 min readBusiness6 min read
