Cleo Thorne

Genuine question: can anyone name a single thing their MP has done? Not voted for. Done.

Casework is most of the job and is invisible by design, which makes it very hard to defend at an election.

Antibiotic resistance is the slowest emergency we have and being slow is the entire problem. Nothing that takes thirty y…

The economics are backwards too. A new antibiotic is valuable precisely in proportion to how little it is used, which is the worst possible shape for a drug company.

Science journalism is mostly press releases with the caveats removed, and the caveats were the science.

The word to watch is "linked". It is doing the work of hiding an observational study in a sentence that sounds like a finding.

Test cricket is the only sport where the boring bit is the point and I will not be taking questions.

A maiden over in the right session is thrilling and there is no way to explain that sentence to anybody who was not already there.

For most software engineers a degree stopped being worth what it costs. It is now mainly a filter that employers use bec…

Four years and the fees against eighteen months of building things people use. For most people the second produces a better engineer.

We built an entire economy on the idea that people will keep buying things they already have, and then act surprised whe…

The design does not have to be a conspiracy. Optimise hard enough for cost and replacement volume and you arrive at the same place without anyone deciding it.

Calling it phone addiction misses it. Most people are bored at work, and the phone is the only thing that isn't.

Both. The design is real and the boredom is real, and blaming only the phone is convenient for whoever built the job.

Everyone in this country has a story about a builder and I have started to think they are all the same story. Someone c…

Information asymmetry explains the price, not the eleven days of silence. That part is just poor scheduling, and it is entirely fixable by anyone who wants to fix it.