✍️ Ever wondered whether your books could end up as fuel for an AI — without you ever knowing? I discovered two of mine did. Now Anthropic has agreed to pay US $1.5 billion to authors in what may be the first major AI-copyright settlement. This post explores what that means — not just for the cheque, but for the future of creative rights, attribution and consent in the AI era. 🔍📚

I had the joy of directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? at the OSO Theatre’s 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase — a beautifully intimate piece about love, uncertainty and the small moments that change everything. Working with the brilliant Nora Holmen and Alfredo Mudie Smart was a genuine privilege, and together we shaped a story that felt both fragile and fiercely human. Grateful, inspired, and already looking forward to the next chapter.

There are certain moments in life when technology promises serenity and delivers chaos. You sit down, ready for an evening of podcast-fuelled pottering about, and your Apple TV decides—rather unilaterally—that you’ve had quite enough stimulation for one episode. The screen goes black, the sound stops, and the whole thing curls up for a nap like an overly sensitive cat. If you’ve bumped into this behaviour, you’re not alone.

🔥 Big news — and I’m genuinely honoured. I’ve been named one of Corinium’s 2025 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data, Analytics & AI. It’s not every day you find your name in a list with people you act...

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been invited to direct Merry Graham’s short new play What’s Going to Happen to Us? for a showcase at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes on 23 November 2025 under the the…

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi’s work has led to structures that can extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen.

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A Practitioner’s Response to Lord Darzi’s Vision Earlier this summer at the Alan Turing Institute, Lord Darzi of Denham delivered what may become one of the most defining healthcare addresses of the decade. In a keynote followed by an engaging conversation with Professor Cathy Sudlow (see video below), he laid bare both the challenges and the opportunities facing the NHS as it confronts the age of artificial intelligence.

At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced Icon Composer, an ambitious tool designed to streamline the often cumbersome process of creating app icons. Touted as “one tool to rule them all,” Icon Composer promises developers a revolutionary experience — crafting a single layered icon that automatically scales to suit iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Intrigued by the prospect of eliminating the traditional hassle involving multiple icon sizes, manual variations for dark and light modes, and endless Photoshop tweaking, I took Icon Composer for a test drive (so you don’t have to 😊).

I'm currently a third of the way through Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" and absolutely loving it! 🚀 The way he blends humour with fascinating physics is just brilliant. Plus, I just found out there's a movie coming! My latest blog post dives into why this book is a must-read. Check it out! 👇 #SciFi #BookRecommendation

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been invited to join the Review Panel for the RSA Spark Programme, contributing to Brief Two: Railway 200 & Beyond. As someone who works at the intersection of innovation, systems thinking, and future-facing design, this opportunity feels like the perfect convergence of past inspiration and forward momentum. Honouring Two Centuries of Innovation…

The air buzzed with that familiar blend of overcaffeinated anticipation, jet-lag, optimism over the top, and just enough competitive anxiety to keep the conversations sharp. Between the App Store veterans and AI start-up hopefuls, the vibe was unmistakable: Apple needed to bring something fresh — not just feature parity with Google, not just a clever new icon — but a vision.

There are few moments as satisfying in a writer’s life as the thud of a package on the doorstep—especially when that package contains the culmination of years of work, revision, and relentless debugging. I’m thrilled to share that I’ve received the author copies of the second edition of Data Science and Analytics with Python, and I must say: it feels real now.

“We can rebuild him”: Rediscovering Cyborg by Martin Caidin After a Lifetime with The Six Million Dollar Man “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build …

“We can rebuild him”: Rediscovering Cyborg by Martin Caidin After a Lifetime with The Six Million Dollar Man “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man.” If you were a kid growing up in the 70s or 80s, those words likely echo in your memory, accompanied by the whirring sound of a slow-motion jump, the intense zoom of a bionic eye, and the iconic crash that opens each episode of 

Advanced Data Science and Analytics - 2nd Edition in the making. I have now been slowly but surely working on the revisions and, boy! there is a lot to do. I will keep you posted with the revisions.

Explore how prompt engineering, sentence embeddings, and a smart agent pipeline come together to automate the heavy lifting in legal and policy analysis.

Having recently delved into Bob Mortimer’s novels The Satsuma Complex and its sequel The Hotel Avocado, I found myself immersed in a world where the absurd meets the heartfelt, all narrated with Mortimer’s signature wit. 🍊 The Satsuma Complex In The Satsuma Complex, we meet Gary Thorn, a somewhat nondescript legal assistant whose life takes an unexpected turn after a chance encounter in a pub.

In computational physics, the devil is often in the scales. This post explores how normalisation—when grounded in sound physical principles—can transform unstable simulations into elegant, interpretable models. From wave equations to diffraction integrals, it’s a practical workflow I’ve relied on for years, now distilled into a new paper and shared for the wider community.

Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponents