A list of all my blog posts
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- Building a National Data Library.
What I learned from reading 14 reports and blog posts on a National Data Library.
2025-03-20
- Northern Transport, the Green Book, and BCRs.
Why are North England's politicians repeating the myth that investing in the North is worse value for money than investing in the South?
2025-03-13
- GTFS-RT Archive
GTFS-RT files, collected every minute, over a few days in September 2024.
2025-02-08
- Clusters and sectors.
What are clusters? Why do they matter? Should we even bother?
2025-02-01
- Why North England is poor.
And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.
2025-01-23
- Regional research and development subsidies are working.
But not in the way most people hoped.
2024-11-27
- Not good, but fine.
How important to UK growth is getting industrial electricity prices down?
2024-11-15
- Three quick wins.
How could a new UK government show that it wasn't just promoting data, digital, and AI success in London?
2024-08-15
- HS2. Why, why not, and what now?
HS2 has been a fifteen year failure of British government and UK national instituations. What now?
2024-07-24
- Can the UK go back to being the richest country in the world?
When the UK was the richest country in the world its regional inequality was unusually low. It's unlikely we could return to being the former without reducing regional inequality.
2024-07-09
- Focusing on Human Capital has failed to level up Britain.
Focusing on Human Capital has failed to level up Britain. We should change course.
2024-06-11
- Productivity in transport.
Transport policy for an unproductive country.
2024-06-10
- Becoming an SW1 NPC.
And why a real start-up party would start in local government
2024-05-26
- Unreasonable success.
The unreasonable successes, and failures, of Scottish devolution.
2024-05-23
- Exclusionary complexity.
Appeals to exclusionary complexity reduce public trust in expertise and mainstream politics.
2024-02-25
- Still not trying.
For another decade the UK government has invested more in growth in London and South East England. As a result, growth has happened there.
2023-10-04
- One price.
Markets work best with a single advertised price. Should we be worried that we're moving away from that in the UK?
2023-09-26
- Seven Deadly Bins.
Rishi Sunak is right to avoid the UK government forcing local governments to collect seven bins from people's homes.
2023-09-21
- Achieving Less with Much Less.
Leeds has achieved less with much less investment than it merited. Imagine if we'd invested properly?
2023-09-13
- America's superpower.
America's diversity doesn't mean what it thinks and is much more important to its success than it knows.
2023-07-20
- More Matthew Goodwin.
More of England needs more of the New Elite that Matthew Goodwin describes.
2023-07-13
- Northern chaos.
Northern rail chaos continues. What to do?
2023-06-01
- Local government digital.
Reclaiming local government’s digital relationship with residents.
2023-04-13
- The cost of time
Transpennine Express cancel a quarter of their trains, how much does that cost North England's economy?
2023-03-15
- Pushing the limits of the possible
What I would do as an ARIA Program Director, and why it would fail.
2023-03-09
- Jet Engines and National Data
How do the company registers of the British and French states compare?
2023-02-17
- Fractured
My review of Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again.
2023-02-02
- Transport Open Data in 2023
The transport projects that Open Innovations and I will be working on in 2023.
2023-01-07
- North England vs. North Rhine-Westphalia
North England has the same population living at the same density as North Rhine-Westphalia. How do their economies compare and why is one so much more prosperous than the other?'
2022-12-19
- Fewer buses. More alternatives. Increasing productivity in Leeds.
Leeds probably has too many buses. And too few alternatives.
2022-10-12
- Why isn't France much richer than the UK?
Given its higher taxes why isn't France much richer than the UK?
2022-10-02
- Fortress London
An engaging and enjoyable book by Sam Bright.
2022-05-20
- Protest classifier.
Protest classifier
2022-04-14
- Tepid degrowth vs. sustainable abundance.
Yorkshire's economy has stagnated for two decades. Is that good or bad? Was it inevitable? Could we change direction now? What would that look like?
2022-04-02
- Empty homes for good.
England has fewer empty homes than any other developed country. If we had more we'd be better housed, better off, and happier.'
2022-03-28
- North England vs. The Netherlands.
North England has the same population living at the same density as The Netherlands. How do their economies compare and why is one so much more prosperous than the other?'
2022-03-21
- Housing England.
England has too many homes, or too few. And that matters, or it doesn't. It all depends on who you are and who you ask. Which isn't ideal.
2022-02-23
- Ilkley and Islington.
People in Ilkley get just as good broadband as those in Islington, and they have more money to pay for it.'
2022-02-18
- Measures matter.
Dispersion is better than coefficient of variation for measuring regional inequality.'
2021-12-13
- GB Public Transport Isochrones
How far you can get from Birmingham and London by public transport.'
2021-11-19
- Brownfield first!
The people said they wanted new homes built on brownfield. The UK's cities delivered.'
2021-10-17
- Why local?
Do we still need elected local government?
2021-10-14
- Cars are ace. They also kill people.
Cars are ace. They also kill people. And they kill people in different places to where they are owned.
2021-07-21
- The rise of French Tech
France used to be an also-ran in tech. Now it is Europe's leader.
2021-07-09
- What is the UK?
What is the UK? Does it matter? And where would I find out?
2021-03-27
- Miserabalism
The Republic is cool, but the force that really holds France together is pretending to be miserable.
2021-03-17
- Precaution
Medicine is often not much about cost benefit analysis.
2021-03-17
- Bins and the law.
It's never wise to admit to breaking the law, but we can imagine.
2021-02-13
- Styles
Why do Styles in Microsoft Word suck and when is Microsoft going to fix them?
2021-01-10
- Constitutional vandalism
Constitutional vandalism, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and politics in 2021.
2020-12-31
- Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries
Regional inequality is falling, but not everwhere.
2020-11-23
- Measuring regional inequality
Why measuring regional inequality is hard and sensational answers aren't sensible.
2020-11-22
- Where pupils in England get free school meals.
Where pupils in England get free school meals.
2020-10-23
- Working with housing data, not in Excel
Working with housing data, not in Excel.
2020-10-12
- AOCs
Protected naming rights and why they're great!
2020-10-01
- Building The Data City
How AI is replacing SIC codes and making modern industrial strategy work.
2020-09-30
- Systembolaget and ML.NET
Teaching a web server how to drink
2020-06-27
- The best app I (n)ever built.
The best app I (n)ever built and how to build more.
2020-05-01
- Letting succesful places fail.
Why does the state keep forcing places to grow that don't want to, and what's the alternative?
2020-02-01
- Bus use data.
We know when, where, and which buses people use in London. Let's do it everywhere!
2019-12-01
- CityMapper and the state.
The CityMapper Pass proves that great innovations are rarely new, and are usually enabled by the state.
2019-03-01
- New data for innovation policy
Risks and opportunities of new data for innovation policy.
2019-03-01
- Taste tests
What food is it worth spending more on?
2019-03-01
- Who is blocking local development?
Are homeowners who block local development the worst NIMBYs? Or are The Conservative Party worse?
2019-02-01
- What I use.
What software, hardware, and technologies do I use to do the #opendata stuff that I do.
2019-02-01
- Birmingham is a small city.
Real Journey Time, Real City Size, and the disappearing productivity puzzle.
2019-01-14
- Parliament's digital work matters
Why I'm not talking about Tech for Good.
2018-12-01
- Tech for Good?
Why I'm not talking about Tech for Good.
2018-11-01
- Naming places, and the role of government.
Should governments decide what places are called? Should the people? Should companies? Or should it be all three?
2018-10-01
- Wellcome Trust.
A hard Brexit would hurt The Wellcome Trust, but it should accept that it is partly responsible.
2018-10-01
- Beyond BCR.
We don't need to add more to our existing transport appraisal model, we need a simpler system altogether.
2018-09-01
- Making the case for agglomeration.
Why agglomeration makes us richer, and how we can win support.
2018-08-01
- A better debate on transport.
The UK government is not investing more in transport in North England than London and the Wider South East.
2018-08-01
- Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government.
Why France understands the opportunities of algorithmic decision making much more than The UK.
2018-06-01
- Are Northerners poor because we’re thick?
North England has lower IQ than South England
2018-06-01
- A Brexit bonus?
Brexit may finally force Britain to make better decisions. That would be a nice silver lining.
2018-05-01
- Heathrow two.
Schiphol is still the UK’s hub airport. Will Brexit protectionism change that?
2018-05-01
- Rage against the machine.
You cannot 'get out of London' by staying in London.
2018-05-01
- Kill ODS. Devolve GDS.
The expansion of the EU was the best thing that happened to Britain in my life. My experience picking strawberries.
2018-04-01
- Free bus passes for under 25s?
Why Labour's rumoured free bus passes for under 25s are bad policy, and a further undermining of local government.
2018-04-01
- Are lives in Tottenham worth less?
2018-04-01
- Boosting R&D in the UK
Why is the UK government boosting R&D spending? How much does it need to spend? What is it trying to achieve? How should it achieve that?
2018-03-01
- Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism?
Why buy local is bad, but the ideas behind might not be.
2018-03-01
- Sheffield's trees and taking back control
Why is the UK government boosting R&D spending? How much does it need to spend? What is it trying to achieve? How should it achieve that?
2018-03-01
- Trickle out works: inequality in Greater Manchester.
Spatial income inequality has been falling in Greater Manchester for two decades. So why do people think it's risen?
2018-02-01
- R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford
Why the UK government should invest much less in Oxford and much more in Manchester
2018-02-01
- Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport.
What's the longest chain of stops on British public transport which are also in alphabetical order? I answer this daft questions and explain why the open data that lets us find out the answer is very useful.
2018-02-01
- What's wrong with French democracy?
The Economist's democracy index says France's political culture is as weak as Zimbabwe and Vietnam's, and weaker than China's. Is that right? The data suggests not, so what's going on?
2018-01-01
- One Nobel Prize and a Yorkshire transport policy.
Ten things I'd write in a Yorkshire transport policy tomorrow.
2017-11-17
- Defending the zombie graph
IPPR North are right to predict the the UK government will invest more in South English than North English infrastructure in the coming years.
2017-07-26
- Emulating Ireland
Ireland's economy transformed from being like Yorkshire's in 1995 to being like South-East England's by 2015. What mix of education, infrastructure, and tax competition contributed most?
2017-07-15
- Regulators and markets
The device and the browser you are reading this on are better because of state regulation of Microsoft. But that doesn't mean regulation is right more than rarely.
2017-06-28
- Politics, trust, and GDS
Why creating a single UK website for voter registration would be a bad idea, even if it was good.
2017-05-01
- Not like London
Too often 'we don't want to be like London' means we don't want to pay our way within the UK. That's not okay.
2017-04-27
- Imagination not needed: part 3
What should we do?
2017-01-4
- PubQuest Birmingham
We visited every West Midlands pub in the Good Beer Guide. Here's what we found.
2016-12-29
- Imagination not needed: part 2
What's stopping the North from succeeding.
2016-12-28
- Imagination not needed: part 1
Liberal policies that work for more of the UK already exist.
2016-12-19
- My positive case for the EU.
The expansion of the EU was the best thing that happened to Britain in my life. My experience picking strawberries.
2016-06-01
- How (not?) to build a TechNation
Why was Tech North killed and what does that mean for government support for tech in North England and the UK?
2016-01-25
- Yorkshire Backwards
Are we painting the right picture of a successful future for Leeds City Region, West Yorkshire, and Yorkshire?
2014-04-09
Here's the more heavily curated and organised list of what I've written. It's not very well maintained because it takes too much time.
All blogposts
- Unreasonable success. 23 May 2024
- Exclusionary complexity. 25 Feb 2024
- Still not trying. 4 Oct 2023
- One price. 26 Sept 2023
- Seven Deadly Bins. 21 Sept 2023
- Achieving Less with Much Less. 13 Sept 2023
- America's superpower. 20 Jul 2023
- More Matthew Goodwin. 13 Jul 2023
- Northern chaos. 1 Jun 2023
- Local government digital. 13 Apr 2023
- The cost of time 15 Mar 2023
- Pushing the limits of the possible 9 Mar 2023
- Jet Engines and National Data 17 Feb 2023
- North England vs. North Rhine-Westphalia 19 Dec 2022
- Fewer buses. More alternatives. Increasing productivity in Leeds. 12 Oct 2022
- Why isn't France much richer than the UK? 2 Oct 2022
- Fortress London 20 May 2022
- Empty homes for good. 28 Mar 2022
- North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022
- Ilkley and Islington. 18 Feb 2022
- Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
- GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021
- Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021
- Why local? 14 Oct 2021
- The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021
- What is the UK? 27 Mar 2021
- Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
- Precaution 17 Mar 2021
- Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
- Styles 10 Jan 2021
- Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020
- Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
- Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
- Where pupils in England get free school meals. 23 Oct 2020
- Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020
- Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
- Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020
- The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
- Letting succesful places fail. 1 Feb 2020
- Bus use data. 1 Dec 2019
- Skype for climate 1 Oct 2019
- Taste tests 1 Mar 2019
- New data for innovation policy 1 Mar 2019
- CityMapper and the state. 1 Mar 2019
- What I use. 1 Feb 2019
- Who is blocking local development? 1 Feb 2019
- Birmingham is a small city. 14 Jan 2019
- Parliament's digital work matters 1 Dec 2018
- Tech for Good? 1 Nov 2018
- Wellcome Trust. 1 Oct 2018
- Naming places, and the role of government. 1 Oct 2018
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- A better debate on transport. 1 Aug 2018
- Making the case for agglomeration. 1 Aug 2018
- Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 1 Jun 2018
- Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 1 Jun 2018
- Rage against the machine. 1 May 2018
- Heathrow two. 1 May 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 1 Apr 2018
- Free bus passes for under 25s? 1 Apr 2018
- Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 1 Apr 2018
- Sheffield's trees and taking back control 1 Mar 2018
- Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 1 Mar 2018
- Boosting R&D in the UK 1 Mar 2018
- Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 1 Feb 2018
- R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 1 Feb 2018
- Trickle out works: inequality in Greater Manchester. 1 Feb 2018
- What's wrong with French democracy? 1 Jan 2018
- All my blog posts 2 Dec 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 5 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 4 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 3 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 2 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 1 2 Oct 2017
- Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
- Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017
- Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
- Not like London 27 Apr 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016
- My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016
- Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016
- How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016
- Tom's Cartoons 1 Dec 2014
- Zwack 6 Nov 2012
- Vaccination injection rate.
- Population around a point
- Ring populations
- Defending the zombie graph
- West Yorkshire Devolution
- One Nobel Prize and a Yorkshire transport policy.
- Yorkshire Backwards
- 1975 WY Metro Plan
- Why I hate Webkit
- Why devolution?
- Where trust in experts dies.
- What works or what should work?
- What powers?
- We've never even tried
- Loving and hating UWP
- Child poverty and university access
- Transport Complexity
- Rail Geography
- Time is money, but how much money?
- Thinking BIM at ODILeeds
- The mathematics of inequality
- The UK and the Euro
- Tech transitions
- Building a TechNation
- Tom's Teaching
- Tap to Pay
- Summing it up
- Steel and the free market
- Stay inside the bubble
- The State of the North
- Sponsored tube
- Making Science more Vital
- SimSponge
- SimSponge
- A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible.
- Simple innovations
- SimFlood
- 10 things London can shove up its a%se
- Science and PDFs
- Come say hello!
- Saving the Union.
- Saving lives by failing to save lives.
- Robbo Page
- Bins and the law.
- The right decision, taken in the wrong way.
- Researching R&D
- Reachable stations
- RateMyPlace
- Northern Rail and TPE Consultation
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- Productivity and patrie.
- The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe
- 403 Forbidden
- Playful Everywhere!
- PhD Page
- PhD Project Page
- Pfal network site, currently only for LSTM people
- PDF Tests
- PDF for planners
- PDFAttacher
- Part of the problem: The Economist on Scotland.
- More problems with the PAF
- Pacers and The Art of the Possible
- Orange
- Open data struggles
- Open data in Birmingham
- ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances
- ODCamp 4: Cardiff
- NYE 2010/2011 recordings using Ovi Loop for Nokia.
- 29/10/2015 ODI Node Summit (Tom Forth, ODILeeds notes)
- Nicky Morgan
- myMP app for Nokia smartphones
- Moving to Manchester
- London’s skills shortage.
- Mostly Right but Badly Wrong.
- The most important graph
- The most exciting place in the world!
- More things for Leeds!
- More than Meetup
- Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones
- Midland Metro usage diagram.
- Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway
- MetNetMaker on Tom's Personal Page
- Measuring tech: in France and the UK
- Malaria
- The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners
- liveFluxView
- Leeds Site Allocations
- 403 Forbidden
- Leeds Last Page
- Learning from London
- KEGG Projector
- The Importance of Failure!
- iPhones and folk tales
- The definition of insanity
- Time lags in innovation
- Industrial strategy in the UK
- Inequality in England & Wales
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Inclusive growth
- Imitating Manchester
- Imagination not needed: part 3
- Imagination not needed: part 2
- Imagination not needed: part 1
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Hybrid PDFs
- The UK's real hub airport
- Is London holding us back?
- A Waterwheel in Hol Beck
- Hartlepool and Redcar
- Guardian-style comment generator
- How great data could power a Great British recovery
- R&D and Google Mobility.
- Global Open Data
- Gender Bias Calculator
- The GDP mystery
- The housing market works, where we let it
- Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds
- Five years in Manchester
- The fiscal balance of power
- Fifa is the right’s Venezuela.
- Fares data will be hard.
- Experts got it wrong.
- Euro Voters part 2
- Euro voters
- What has the EU ever done?
- Epson Waste Ink Resetter for px700w and similar
- Energy Guardian 2.0
- Ward Map of Empty Homes
- Empty Homes Profiler
- Eduroam on Windows 8
- The Bird Index
- Easy Wins for Microsoft
- Better Bus Maps
- DHEZ Solutions 1
- Defending Uber
- Should we even try to engage with NIMBYs?
- CyberFirst
- ONS household count estimates are wrong
- Counting households
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- Listen less. Do more!
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- Better Bus Maps
- Building a really simple Chrome extension
- We must cherish our Capital
- Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester
- The centre of the UK
- Centralism is like Santa Claus
- Rail Geography
- Car-free Birmingham
- Calderdale's digital strategy
- BusTracker
- Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse
- What is London?
- A year in Birmingham
- Where do you take my bike lights?
- Leeds is the best city
- #BBCDataDay
- The BBC's other Bias
- Avalanche
- Our reponsibilities
- Apps for Nokia Smartphones
- Dr. Adonis is wrong
- A Clearer Plan
- Academic Output
Data
- Jet Engines and National Data 17 Feb 2023
- Fewer buses. More alternatives. Increasing productivity in Leeds. 12 Oct 2022
- Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
- GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021
- Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021
- Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
- Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
- Where pupils in England get free school meals. 23 Oct 2020
- Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020
- Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
- Bus use data. 1 Dec 2019
- Taste tests 1 Mar 2019
- CityMapper and the state. 1 Mar 2019
- Parliament's digital work matters 1 Dec 2018
- Naming places, and the role of government. 1 Oct 2018
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- A better debate on transport. 1 Aug 2018
- Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 1 Apr 2018
- Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 1 Feb 2018
- PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016
- Population around a point
- Ring populations
- Where trust in experts dies.
- What works or what should work?
- Child poverty and university access
- Transport Complexity
- Time is money, but how much money?
- Thinking BIM at ODILeeds
- The mathematics of inequality
- SimSponge
- SimSponge
- SimFlood
- Come say hello!
- More problems with the PAF
- Open data struggles
- Open data in Birmingham
- ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances
- ODCamp 4: Cardiff
- More than Meetup
- Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway
- Measuring tech: in France and the UK
- How great data could power a Great British recovery
- Global Open Data
- Fares data will be hard.
- Experts got it wrong.
- Ward Map of Empty Homes
- The Bird Index
- Defending Uber
- ONS household count estimates are wrong
- Counting households
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- The centre of the UK
- Calderdale's digital strategy
- Leeds is the best city
- #BBCDataDay
Regional growth
- Unreasonable success. 23 May 2024
- Still not trying. 4 Oct 2023
- Achieving Less with Much Less. 13 Sept 2023
- America's superpower. 20 Jul 2023
- The cost of time 15 Mar 2023
- Pushing the limits of the possible 9 Mar 2023
- North England vs. North Rhine-Westphalia 19 Dec 2022
- Fortress London 20 May 2022
- North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022
- Ilkley and Islington. 18 Feb 2022
- Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
- Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
- Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
- Letting succesful places fail. 1 Feb 2020
- Who is blocking local development? 1 Feb 2019
- Birmingham is a small city. 14 Jan 2019
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 1 Jun 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 1 Mar 2018
- Boosting R&D in the UK 1 Mar 2018
- R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 1 Feb 2018
- Leeds Growth Strategy 5 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 4 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 3 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 2 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 1 2 Oct 2017
- Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
- Not like London 27 Apr 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Tom's Cartoons 1 Dec 2014
- Bins and the law.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe
- ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances
- Moving to Manchester
- London’s skills shortage.
- Mostly Right but Badly Wrong.
- The most important graph
- More things for Leeds!
- The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners
- Industrial strategy in the UK
- Imitating Manchester
- Imagination not needed: part 3
- Imagination not needed: part 2
- Imagination not needed: part 1
- The UK's real hub airport
- Is London holding us back?
- Hartlepool and Redcar
- Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds
- Five years in Manchester
- Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester
- Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse
- A year in Birmingham
Local power
- Seven Deadly Bins. 21 Sept 2023
- America's superpower. 20 Jul 2023
- More Matthew Goodwin. 13 Jul 2023
- Northern chaos. 1 Jun 2023
- Local government digital. 13 Apr 2023
- Fortress London 20 May 2022
- Why local? 14 Oct 2021
- Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
- Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020
- CityMapper and the state. 1 Mar 2019
- Who is blocking local development? 1 Feb 2019
- Naming places, and the role of government. 1 Oct 2018
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- Rage against the machine. 1 May 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 1 Apr 2018
- Sheffield's trees and taking back control 1 Mar 2018
- Leeds Growth Strategy 5 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 4 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 3 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 2 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 1 2 Oct 2017
- West Yorkshire Devolution
- Yorkshire Backwards
- Why devolution?
- What powers?
- We've never even tried
- Transport Complexity
- Tap to Pay
- Summing it up
- Steel and the free market
- The State of the North
- Sponsored tube
- Making Science more Vital
- 10 things London can shove up its a%se
- Saving lives by failing to save lives.
- The right decision, taken in the wrong way.
- Northern Rail and TPE Consultation
- Is London holding us back?
- Hartlepool and Redcar
- Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds
- Five years in Manchester
- The fiscal balance of power
- Experts got it wrong.
- Defending Uber
- We must cherish our Capital
- Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester
- Centralism is like Santa Claus
- Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse
- What is London?
- A year in Birmingham
- The BBC's other Bias
- Dr. Adonis is wrong
Economics
- Unreasonable success. 23 May 2024
- One price. 26 Sept 2023
- Achieving Less with Much Less. 13 Sept 2023
- America's superpower. 20 Jul 2023
- The cost of time 15 Mar 2023
- North England vs. North Rhine-Westphalia 19 Dec 2022
- Why isn't France much richer than the UK? 2 Oct 2022
- North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022
- Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
- Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
- Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
- Birmingham is a small city. 14 Jan 2019
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- A better debate on transport. 1 Aug 2018
- Making the case for agglomeration. 1 Aug 2018
- Heathrow two. 1 May 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 1 Mar 2018
- Leeds Growth Strategy 5 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 4 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 3 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 2 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 1 2 Oct 2017
- Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Defending the zombie graph
- What works or what should work?
- We've never even tried
- The mathematics of inequality
- The UK and the Euro
- Steel and the free market
- Simple innovations
- Saving the Union.
- Bins and the law.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- Productivity and patrie.
- Imagination not needed: part 3
- Imagination not needed: part 2
- Imagination not needed: part 1
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Is London holding us back?
- Hartlepool and Redcar
- The GDP mystery
- The housing market works, where we let it
- Five years in Manchester
- The fiscal balance of power
- Defending Uber
- Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester
- A year in Birmingham
- Dr. Adonis is wrong
Transport
- Northern chaos. 1 Jun 2023
- The cost of time 15 Mar 2023
- Fewer buses. More alternatives. Increasing productivity in Leeds. 12 Oct 2022
- GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021
- Bus use data. 1 Dec 2019
- Birmingham is a small city. 14 Jan 2019
- Beyond BCR. 1 Sept 2018
- A better debate on transport. 1 Aug 2018
- Free bus passes for under 25s? 1 Apr 2018
- Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 1 Feb 2018
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
- Defending the zombie graph
- One Nobel Prize and a Yorkshire transport policy.
- 1975 WY Metro Plan
- Where trust in experts dies.
- What works or what should work?
- We've never even tried
- Transport Complexity
- Rail Geography
- Time is money, but how much money?
- Tap to Pay
- Sponsored tube
- The right decision, taken in the wrong way.
- Reachable stations
- Northern Rail and TPE Consultation
- Pacers and The Art of the Possible
- Midland Metro usage diagram.
- The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners
- Leeds Last Page
- Learning from London
- Time lags in innovation
- The UK's real hub airport
- Fares data will be hard.
- Defending Uber
- The centre of the UK
- Car-free Birmingham
- Where do you take my bike lights?
Technology
- The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021
- Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
- Styles 10 Jan 2021
- Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
- Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020
- The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
- Skype for climate 1 Oct 2019
- CityMapper and the state. 1 Mar 2019
- What I use. 1 Feb 2019
- Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 1 Apr 2018
- Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017
- Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
- Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016
- How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016
- Why I hate Webkit
- Loving and hating UWP
- Thinking BIM at ODILeeds
- Tech transitions
- Building a TechNation
- A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible.
- SimFlood
- Science and PDFs
- Open data struggles
- Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones
- MetNetMaker on Tom's Personal Page
- Measuring tech: in France and the UK
- iPhones and folk tales
- R&D and Google Mobility.
- Epson Waste Ink Resetter for px700w and similar
- Eduroam on Windows 8
- Easy Wins for Microsoft
- Better Bus Maps
- DHEZ Solutions 1
- Building a really simple Chrome extension
- Apps for Nokia Smartphones
Politics
- Exclusionary complexity. 25 Feb 2024
- Fortress London 20 May 2022
- The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021
- The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
- Free bus passes for under 25s? 1 Apr 2018
- What's wrong with French democracy? 1 Jan 2018
- Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
- My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016
- Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016
- How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016
- West Yorkshire Devolution
- Yorkshire Backwards
- Why devolution?
- Where trust in experts dies.
- Child poverty and university access
- The UK and the Euro
- Building a TechNation
- Tap to Pay
- Summing it up
- Saving the Union.
- Saving lives by failing to save lives.
- London’s skills shortage.
- Imitating Manchester
- Imagination not needed: part 3
- Imagination not needed: part 2
- Imagination not needed: part 1
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Fifa is the right’s Venezuela.
- Experts got it wrong.
- Euro Voters part 2
- Euro voters
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
- Our reponsibilities
- Dr. Adonis is wrong
Other
- All my blog posts 2 Dec 2017
- Zwack 6 Nov 2012
- Robbo Page
- RateMyPlace
- NYE 2010/2011 recordings using Ovi Loop for Nokia.
- 29/10/2015 ODI Node Summit (Tom Forth, ODILeeds notes)
- myMP app for Nokia smartphones
- The most exciting place in the world!
- 403 Forbidden
- KEGG Projector
- The Importance of Failure!
- A Waterwheel in Hol Beck
- Guardian-style comment generator
- What has the EU ever done?
- Energy Guardian 2.0
- Empty Homes Profiler
- CyberFirst
- BusTracker
R&D
- Pushing the limits of the possible 9 Mar 2023
- Letting succesful places fail. 1 Feb 2020
- Wellcome Trust. 1 Oct 2018
- Boosting R&D in the UK 1 Mar 2018
- R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 1 Feb 2018
- We've never even tried
- Tom's Teaching
- Summing it up
- Steel and the free market
- Researching R&D
- Playful Everywhere!
- Measuring tech: in France and the UK
- Time lags in innovation
- Industrial strategy in the UK
- R&D and Google Mobility.
- Academic Output
Inequality
- Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
- Trickle out works: inequality in Greater Manchester. 1 Feb 2018
- Leeds Growth Strategy 5 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 4 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 3 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 2 2 Oct 2017
- Leeds Growth Strategy 1 2 Oct 2017
- The mathematics of inequality
- Inequality in England & Wales
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Inclusive growth
- Income and inequality historical data explorer
- Gender Bias Calculator
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- A year in Birmingham
Housing
- Empty homes for good. 28 Mar 2022
- Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021
- Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020
- Who is blocking local development? 1 Feb 2019
- Leeds Site Allocations
- Hybrid PDFs
- The housing market works, where we let it
- Should we even try to engage with NIMBYs?
- ONS household count estimates are wrong
- Counting households
- A Clearer Plan
Design
- Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 1 Apr 2018
- Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
- Tech transitions
- Tap to Pay
- Stay inside the bubble
- A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible.
- Open data struggles
- Listen less. Do more!
PDFs
- Science and PDFs
- 403 Forbidden
- PDF Tests
- PDF for planners
- PDFAttacher
- Hybrid PDFs
- Global Open Data
- A Clearer Plan
The EU
- Heathrow two. 1 May 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016
- The definition of insanity
- The GDP mystery
- Euro Voters part 2
- Euro voters
Productivity
- Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
- Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- Productivity and patrie.
- The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe
AI
- Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020
- New data for innovation policy 1 Mar 2019
- Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 1 Jun 2018
- More than Meetup
- Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones
- Academic Output
France
- Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
- What's wrong with French democracy? 1 Jan 2018
- Productivity and patrie.
- How great data could power a Great British recovery
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
- Rail Geography
The UK
- What is the UK? 27 Mar 2021
- Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020
- Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
- Part of the problem: The Economist on Scotland.
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
Agglomeration
- R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 1 Feb 2018
- The most important graph
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
- City prosperity by country.
Health
- Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
- Precaution 17 Mar 2021
- Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway
- Better Bus Maps
- DHEZ Solutions 1
Education
Tech for Good
- The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
- Tech for Good? 1 Nov 2018
- Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 1 Jun 2018
- Gender Bias Calculator
Malaria PhD
Malaria
Brexit
- Heathrow two. 1 May 2018
- A Brexit bonus? 1 May 2018
- The definition of insanity
Covid-19
- Coronavirus response in the UK and France
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
- Covid-19 and deprivation in England
Food
- Taste tests 1 Mar 2019
- PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016
Innovation
- New data for innovation policy 1 Mar 2019
- Better Bus Maps
Leeds
Competition policy
- Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017
- iPhones and folk tales
PhD
Culture
Geography
- Naming places, and the role of government. 1 Oct 2018
Tech for good
- Skype for climate 1 Oct 2019
Science
Play
Consumer rights
Birmingham
Intelligence
- Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 1 Jun 2018
The Economist
Microsoft
Regional Growth
- Making the case for agglomeration. 1 Aug 2018