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We haven’t done one of these for a while, not least because I haven’t been blogging enough. Here are some ideas The Populist Papers: this will probably be either AFOE or maybe Politico Europe, and it’s an effort to define what the key traits of populism (European meaning, negative LaFollette) are. My thinking is that…

So I need to write some more stuff for the Pol. Progress so far is here. My self-imposed terms of reference require something that uses data or public documents and that results in a testable prediction. Also, I’m chary of doing something about Greece for fear both that the situation changes dramatically during the editing…

There has been a disturbing lack of content here lately. Let’s have an open newslist to fix that. Some ideas: That Android vs Symbian post. That #Savileweek post about him as the first postmodern celebrity (will include pictures). A technical look back at the phone-hacking scandal, because I think there is at least one big…

It’s a little while since we did one of these. Candidates include: Think Defence has finished their epic series on the disastrous FRES procurement. It has much in common with classic IT project failure, for example, the NHS NPfIT. Also, we wanted to have at Eric Pickles on a related issue and we might yet…

Here is yr open newslist. Materials have moved – they are now here and here for AFOE, as I’ve cut over to Pinboard.

Looking in my notebook: 1) A substantial piece on JW Mason’s Disgorge the Cash (as requested) and John Seddon’s Freedom from Command and Control, plus Simon Head’s Mindless. You know you want it. 2) Two case studies on this post, and the House of Commons Defence Committee. 3) Steve Levitt, radical scepticism, and responsibility in…

OK, does anyone have comments on this week’s agenda? As usual, material will be collecting here.

I like this idea of Andrew Gelman’s, under which he publishes a weekly blog post with a list of potential topics and invites readers to comment on which ones he should blog. So much so, I think I may introduce it myself. 1) I recently read Orlando Figes’ Natasha’s Dance and also Svetlana Alexeivich’s La…