UK Defence Spending 1980 to 2022
This story originally appeared on my Instagram.
Short Stories
Collection of short posts and short stories.
The holy grail of inflation is within sight – CPI at 2.3%
New inflation data from the ONS shows inflation is falling, and we’re getting ever closer to the inflationary holy grail of 2%. CPI is at 2.3%, down from 3.2% in March. Yet this is above the 2.1% forecasted. However, I…
Marketing Isn’t Just Creating Content
Marketing isn’t creating content. Marketing isn’t building a community. Marketing isn’t creating brand collateral, or sales enablement. Marketing IS finding out where your market/buyers are, and building trust with them. Those things mentioned? They’re tactics. You create content to help…
A Local Poll Battering [Video]
What a weekend in politics ay? A “local poll battering” as the FT called it, the Prime Minister seeing off a rebellion, and the Greens doing better than everyone expected. If the election was called today (or on Monday 6th…
Heinz Beanz has risen faster than inflation [Video]
“Beanz Meanz Heinz” a slogan drummed into the British consciousness. Or does it? With Heinz baked beans rising faster than inflation, its days as an icon could possibly be numbered. Here’s a little video I knocked up telling this totally…
Slow Creation will Create More Value
As ChatGPT and “the algorithm” pushes firms to create stuff faster and faster. That which is created slower and slower will create more value in the long term. No case studies, but this is intuitive when it comes to creativity.…
Two key stats to ponder for 2024
Two key stats to ponder for 2024: The age-gap echo chambers are worsening (and all the, shall we say, *interesting* side effects this has on liberal democracies, but let’s put a pin in that for now), but the opportunity hunters…
The London Economic Story affecting all Londoners [Video]
There’s an economic story that’s been affecting all Londoners. It’s what has happened to: – Income– Rents– House prices. In the past ten years in the capital. This isn’t just some cool chart, this touches on the heart of the…
How much of your income would go towards your monthly mortgage payment in London? [Video]
Perhaps it is possible to buy a house in London alone, as an average earner. But the data sure doesn’t agree with it. This originally appeared on my LinkedIn.
Why It’s Easy To Do Data Journalism in the UK (and I guess any job involving Data).
Once upon a time, well actually, in 2009. Gordon Brown and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were having dinner. (A reminder: one of them was Prime Minister, and the other is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.) Gordon Brown, doing what…