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Odds and (Year) Ends #21: Peak Christmas?

Odds and Ends #20: Happy Foxing Day

2023 was an even deadlier year for celebrities than 2016 – and this graph proves it

Odds and Ends #19: What do environmental activists actually want?

Odds and Ends #18: Rupa Huq's infuriating NIMBYism

I'm worried the Tories are too left-wing for me

Odds and Ends #17: Jon Stewart for President!

Hey, stick around! 20% off annual subscriptions for the next few days.

How to fix the New Statesman

Odds and Ends #16: The tech guy making the world worse

You can't cancel the gender wars when the policy questions are unsettled

An important parking infrastructure decision is about to be made – and I feel like us nerds can help make it right

Labour must pledge to safeguard the HS2 route to Manchester

Odds and Ends #15: Look at these cool transport graphs and diagrams

The left should stop being 'Intellectual Zambonis' for bad ideas

Yes, I'm actually serious: The British government should buy Twitter

Odds and Ends #14: Don't be a climate doomer

I had a meeting with the Shadow Business Secretary about the Postcode Address File (!)

Odds and Ends #13: My terrifying AI Israel/Palestine experiment

Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America

Odds and Ends #12: Arnie is the guru who can deprogramme the alt-right

It's crazy how much Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data

Odds and Ends #11: Don't salt the earth with the HS2 sell-off

How Disney should fix Star Wars

Odds and Ends #10: The glitter protester's cause was dumber than his stunt

We should be more honest about the role that status-seeking plays in debates

Odds and Ends #9: Liz Truss is the name of the creator, not the monster

Rishi's stupid "Plan for Drivers" actually contains some good ideas

Odds and Ends #8: What's going on inside Keir Starmer's head?

We should turn Brexit Britain into a Lab Meat Superpower

Odds and Ends #7: Labour’s excellent new slogan

"Misinformation" isn't the problem with the EV transition

Odds and Ends #6: An infuriating BBC News story

It's time to extend the Elizabeth Line to Ebbsfleet and North Kent

Odds and Ends #5: Why I'm unreasonably angry about a charity shop in Margate

Nobody cares about local government – but we can make them

A new era begins!

Odds and Ends #4: Why Britain doesn't build

Let's *actually build* the future, together

The birth rate weirdos have a point (about this one specific thing)

Odds and Ends #3: Lefty in-fighting and good solar news

It's crazy that astrology is still a thing

Odds and Ends #2: Another insane HS2 decision

We should save the High Street by densifying our town and city centres

Odds and Ends #1: Labour backs liberating the Postcode Address File (sort of)

The LibDems should think of some new ideas

This is the dream

We *should* close all of the train ticket offices

Uxbridge is not a reason for Labour to dump its climate commitments

Labour needs to make the selfish case for foreign aid

It's good to be the asshole in the room

The rise of New Statesman Man

Twitter's transport experts are wrong, and I know better than them

Stop letting Elon Musk break your brain

E-scooters are good and Britain should legalise them

Activists should make fighting climate change a right-wing cause

Labour can't avoid The Worst Debate On The Internet

This is the secret plan for Keir Starmer's big Brexit U-turn

Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people