Try these polls
I haven’t written for a while. Today, rather than offering you another long opinion, I would like to hear yours. Below are four questions on rather different subjects. Voting is [...]
The Hard Man of Brexit and Me
Shocking, isn’t it? Suffrago, my tech startup aiming to create a UK operating system (GovTech), has hired the “hard man of Brexit”, Steve Baker! As the Harrogate Advertiser reports, the [...]
My Life’s Work
Around two years ago, I co-founded a technology company called Suffrago. I was super confident then that, if we got it right, this could become my life’s work. The idea [...]
What is Opinionomics
(Photos from the Suffrago-sponsored Conversation Cabinet podcast - main image of Kwasi Kwarteng) Every day, millions – perhaps billions – of opinions are expressed. They appear in elections, opinion polls, [...]
Shame on our Estate Agents: The “favoured South Side” of Harrogate slander
I should really name names, but I won’t. For now. I want to challenge one of the laziest and most damaging habits in Harrogate. Ever since my wife and I [...]
Empty shops, empty thinking
Each time I’m sitting at the traffic lights at the bottom of Parliament Street, with the former Rhodes Wood shop standing empty on one side and the still-empty Viper Rooms [...]
Harrogate: Station Gateway
Any first-time visitor to Harrogate walking out of the station could be forgiven for thinking they had somehow ended up in Chisinau — the capital of Moldova. Now I’ve never [...]
Keir Starmer isn’t doomed. He’s just stuck in lawyer-mode.
(The below was written for The Yorkshire Post; perhaps they will print; perhaps they won’t) Merry Christmas, Sir Keir Starmer KC. As a former solicitor, I’m used to instructing [...]
Connecting the Public to Power, Without Taking Sides
One of the realities of modern politics is how often significant decisions happen with very little public awareness. Not because they are trivial, rather because they never properly enter the [...]
