June 2025
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£532k for Moving a Dot. The Broken Procurement Exposed
In Brief: The UK government spent £532,000 moving a dot halfway up the GOV.UK logo and changing its colour. Taxpayers got a turquoise full stop and 150 pages of brand guidelines explaining how “the dot” serves as a “guiding hand for life” whilst the NHS maintenance backlog hit £16 billion and people struggle to heat…
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What Facebook’s Notifications Are Really Telling You
I don’t use Facebook much. If you know me, you probably know that already. I manage a few local business pages. I run a community group with over 12,000 members. I post when something’s worth sharing – something genuinely useful to local people, local businesses, the community. That’s it. I don’t scroll much. I don’t…
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The National Insurance Disaster Nobody Wants to Admit
In Brief: From April 2025, employer National Insurance contributions jumped from 13.8% to 15%, while the threshold dropped from £9,100 to £5,000 per employee. For businesses employing people on £20,000, costs rose 50% overnight. The result has been immediate: 27% of companies postponed or cancelled recruitment, 16% made redundancies, and 19% froze pay reviews. Oxford…
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Memes Won’t Save Men from Suicide. Real Connection Might.
We’re drowning in mental health content while men are quietly dying. Something isn’t adding up. Every day, millions of people scroll past a graphic that says “check on your friend.” They might tap it, feel a brief warm glow, and keep scrolling. Meanwhile, in the UK, multiple men die by suicide every single day. We’ve…
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AI Slop is Not New, Just Industrialised
The behaviour came first, the label arrived later. For many years, lazy and shady people have been building “channels” by scraping other people’s clips, Reddit posts, pet videos, podcast moments and news footage, then stitching them into compilations with a new title, thumbnail and maybe a watermark. AI simply took that lazy mentality and put…