dispatches from the wonk left, where policy is boring, everything is political, and I’m clinging to my last functional brain cell.

in fieldnotes, I collate stray thoughts, mild provocations, and things I’m noticing, questioning, or blaming on late stage capitalism.

in ‘policy isn’t sexy’ I explain how things like procurement rules, R&D incentives and skills funding quietly decide who gets money, power, and functioning infrastructure (and how we could stop using them to accidentally punish poor people).

elsewhere I am a fellow at newspeak house, thinking about R&D, regional inequality, skills, and what it might take to build a state that works on purpose.

expect slow-burn essays and strategic whining about how and why things break, and what it would take to rebuild them without outsourcing the hard bits to hope and a hashtag.