No sooner had the festival started, it finished. Thursday was our last daily dash and this time we focussed on the region’s emerging FinTech sector and the so-called cost of living crisis. There is no doubt that the cost of living crisis has been one of the dominant stories of the last year, driven in … Continue reading Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 3
One out of three can’t be bad
Image thanks to iNews Congratulations to the three newly elected Members of Parliament, Keir Mather for the Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty, Steve Tuckwell for the Conservative Party in Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Sarah Joanne Dyke for the Liberal Democrats in Somerset and Frome. Having faced the prospect of losing all three by-elections, … Continue reading One out of three can’t be bad
Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 2
Looking back at the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival, the days all roll into one. I have to look at the photographs to remember what kind of a day it was. On day two I was wearing long pants and so rain must have been threatening, not that Northumbrian Water would have been too worried by … Continue reading Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 2
Why inequality?
Image thanks to NYMag Inequality has bothered me for a long time. It is firmly in my mind that it is the cause of much, if not most of human misery. I see it on an international scale where wars are fought over resources, on a national scale, where people are worried that immigrants will … Continue reading Why inequality?
Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 1
I must admit to being quite tired when writing this. A few days have passed since the amazing Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival and I should have caught up by now but standing in your feet for large parts of the day while trying to focus on broad concepts and chatting with colleagues old and new … Continue reading Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 1
Morality versus legality
I purposefully have not added a picture. Over the last few months we have seen two examples of the most virulent excesses of our media, two exposés that resulted in a feeding frenzy of speculation and accusation leading to the end of the careers of two broadcasters. The first was the story of Schofield and … Continue reading Morality versus legality
15 years at Thinking Digital
I must admit it took me back a bit when Herb Kim announced that this was the fifteenth Thinking Digital. As I sat in the audience I tried to think of how many I had been too. It isn’t fifteen but it can’t be a long way off. I did notice, however, that I recognised … Continue reading 15 years at Thinking Digital
What’s Up with WhatsApp
It’s hard to get your head around what is going on within the Tory party at the moment. The issue with private WhatsApp messages is a case in point. Baroness Hallett, who is leading the COVID inquiry into government and ministers actions before, during and after the pandemic, has asked for the unredacted WhatsApp messages … Continue reading What’s Up with WhatsApp
You should go to Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival
CyberNorth is back at Europe’s largest innovation festival for the second time, following the amazing time we had last year. Northumbrian Water Group’s innovation festivals are big, loud, exciting and very unique events where they gather some of the greatest and most innovative minds from the worlds of business, science, tech, engineering, utilities and customer … Continue reading You should go to Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival
Seven years too long
Image thanks to GoneWithTheTwins I remember that fateful day, seven years ago, coming down to check the result on my phone to find that leave had won the referendum. Almost immediately I got a WhatsApp from my youngest daughter asking me what it means. My reply was ‘that’s it, we’re out.’ It wasn’t quite that … Continue reading Seven years too long
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 