Bat infrastructure is springing up across the land, and Reform are on the case.| The Value of Nothing
A theme park is being built in Bedfordshire with widespread public support, but the BBC are having none of it.| martinrobbins.substack.com
The revenge of the nerds is upon us and it's incredibly naff.| martinrobbins.substack.com
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.| The Value of Nothing
Durham Country Council fell to a Reform landslide this year, but will un-declaring a climate emergency actually change anything?| martinrobbins.substack.com
How the government’s obsession with tiny numbers has crippled decision making (and undermined the ONS).| martinrobbins.substack.com
A main road through a small town is in desperate need of repair. There's just one small problem: for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.| The Value of Nothing
“I have tried to ascertain where design decisions get made... I have struggled to get to a definite answer.”| martinrobbins.substack.com
Yes, crime statistics show long-term decline, but the numbers don't tell the whole story.| martinrobbins.substack.com
A half-arsed stand-off between central government and local councils is making it harder for people to do the right thing. Westminster should be worried.| martinrobbins.substack.com
What, exactly, is the value of a diagnosis? A review of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity, by Robin Ince.| martinrobbins.substack.com
A dispute over a farm track in Buckinghamshire could cost taxpayers 'tens of millions' in delays to HS2 after local NIMBYs blocked a minor upgrade. I went to see that the fuss was about.| martinrobbins.substack.com
Somehow we've turned key national infrastructure into the wild west.| The Value of Nothing
This week's links roundup, featuring bribes for NIMBYs, the value of diagnosis, (hopefully) the end of terrible touchscreen controls in cars, and oh no I did a podcast.| The Value of Nothing
Behind the drive to AI lies a profound anxiety about our big messy world.| The Value of Nothing
It's time to grow up and get serious.| The Value of Nothing
Shut your mouth, Betteridge. Also: the campaign to stop water from ruining our countryside, how a leading AI accidentally emulated a broken bureaucracy, and the colossal costs of complex care cases.| The Value of Nothing
How Trump - and Robert Peston - broke the news, and why it's probably time to rethink your information diet.| martinrobbins.substack.com
What attracts smart people to crypto? How much havoc can one NIMBY cause? How did someone magic a £58bn company out of thin air? And why should Britain buy Greenland?| The Value of Nothing
In which the nation's most average driver tries to buy a new car and realises we’re all poor now.| martinrobbins.substack.com
Plus chaos chasers, ghost motorways, the secret symbols hiding in your street, and a rationalist death cult.| martinrobbins.substack.com