Happy Eid-al-Fitr to all those who celebrate it! This week, Nick Timothy MP wrote an article in the Telegraph, criticising Muslims who gathered in London’s… Read More »TXSL #13: On Nick Timothy and Religion in the Public Sphere
This week, chef and co-founder of NOMA, René Redzepi, resigned over allegations that he created a toxic workplace environment. Closer to home, I learned that a… Read More »TXSL #12: The Ranting Restaurateur
This is another story from my career, which means I’ll be changing some details to protect the privacy of those involved. At a company I… Read More »TXSL #11: A Ratings Reassignment Reckoning
Just a short one today. The UK student finance system has been in the news this week. On Monday 23/02/2026, personal finance expert Martin Lewis… Read More »TXSL #10: Reframe Your Student Loan As ‘Expected Repayment Remaining’
Recently I encountered an advert about a new dating site that promised to deliver an improved dating experience compared to existing services. I won’t be… Read More »TXSL #9: Swiping Left on Vapourware
I’ve been following some of the coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina this week as some interesting issues around the boundaries of political… Read More »TXSL #8: Three Political Questions at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Yes, it’s another article on AI this week. Google released Project Genie 3 to its Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US at the end… Read More »TXSL #7: Project Genie Brings AI Robots A Step Closer
Earlier this week, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled ‘The Adolescence of Technology’, a follow-up to his 2024 essay ‘Machines of… Read More »TXSL #6: The State of AI Agents in 2026: Incompetent and Dangerous
This is a story from my career, which means, for the purpose of protecting the privacy of anyone mentioned, I’ll be making up a good… Read More »TXSL #5: A Pottery Progress Parable
The western post-war international order ended this week as Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric on acquiring Greenland. Yesterday, this escalated further with Trump’s sudden… Read More »TXSL #4: An Island of Dynamite: Trump’s Greenlandic Großraum is a Gross Miscalculation