Richard Pope

The Nuffield Family Observatory email a ‘Chart of The Month’, which I think is a nice, slow, passive way to consume data visualisations.

This looks like it should be a poster in the backdrop of a scuzzy sci-fi dystopia.

I hope this quote from Professor Peter Fonagy in the trail to his independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism cuts through to people designing digital services (particularly the coaching, relational and behaviour change types) “Saying to someon…

It is the time of year when the seam of parents grumbling about school apps rises to the surface of social media.

Below is a slightly longer version of what became the preface to my book Platformland.

Platformlanding with DEFRA and e-synergy today

As someone who failed GCSE English (and got a full grant) this is mildly triggering: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/17/students-pass-gcse-english-university-loans-proposals

Published today with @kinship.works NHS Operating Patterns - Ways to do good work together, in a decentralised system

Elderflower lemonade

What have drawings of peas got to do with prototyping digital services?

Why it’s important to thinking of public sector super apps from the viewpoint of ‘the system’, not just ‘the citizen’ https://www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-doing/public-sector-super-apps-are-system-facing-products-not-just-citizen-facing-ones/

Lobster pots, complexity and starting small in the right way Or the case against use-cases https://www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-doing/lobster-pots-complexity-and-starting-small-in-the-right-way/

I can’t tell isn’t was just a late 80s early 90s blip (or age induced nostalgia), but it seemed when I was younger questions of ‘confidence’ played out in the House of Commons, at least initially.

In 2018 (ish) at Harvard Kennedy School I saw a talk about cyber (my poor filing system means I can’t find the notes) that included the proposition: how you think about cyber depends if you believe vulnerabilities in software are common or sparse.

Popped in to see Larry

Given generative AI is all about predicting next words, when do I get a better spell check!?

Good thoughts from @edent.tel on closing open-source repos because Mythos: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/does-mythos-mean-you-need-to-shut-down-your-open-source-repos/ I would strongly recommend reading the UK’s AI Safety Institute’s evaluation of Clau…

Keep coming back to this video in the context of AI-based public services: [www.youtube.com/watch If mentalizing / epistemic trust is the key to learning some things, is it ever OK for machines to fake it, or should machines only be in a supporting role to

The Palintir mini manifesto at least makes it clear that if you buy their software you are buying it to a transnational political, military and economic project.

This is beginning to feel like an inevitability: Davey says war bonds would help to speed up UK defence spending

Kingsdown, Kent

Stop searching for AI ‘use-cases’.

At the British Academy for a day long policy lab Noted on the way in: the dedicated Champaign cork recycling box

Positioning AI https://www.rpp.works/ways-of-doing/positioning-ai/

Captcha aesthetics are getting weird

More of this ministers showing prototypes please https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d1ql5w0vo

In the search for calm things to play while kids are having breakfast, I stumbled across David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davi… It’s mostly very Jackanory, but with occasional very Bowie pronunciations of things like “the wolf ^…

I have literally no idea if I have verified my identity with Companies House or how to check.

The House of Commons Library on the concept on impeachment* Impeachment is considered obsolete, as it has been superseded by other forms of accountability, and the rules underpinning the procedure have not been adapted to modern standards of democracy or…