A new PM. A new cabinet. Who are these people? The BBC helpfully informs us, with a brief sketch of each key individual. Take Kwasi Kwarteng, for instance. The BBC’s Lora Jones tells us he is not lacking in “intellectual firepower”, has a “double first from Cambridge University and a PhD in economic history” and,…

We have allowed ourselves to become slaves to computers, and thereby to numbers and precision. In most contexts, precise numbers are spurious or misleading. Our obsession with them often leads to blinkered thought processes. Over the last decade, Big Data has become big business. A vast amount of time and energy is channeled into a…