Long-form analysis of British politics, technology, and policy. Exploring the gaps between how systems should work and how they actually function.
An obscure refugee-matching system shows what exit from an embedded vendor looks like. The conditions that made it possible are largely absent from the £670 million of contracts that remain.
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy is one of the cleanest policy successes of the past decade. Ministers have decided it should stay locked to drinks.
After breaches at SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus, South Korea has extracted a floor on mobile data that looks less like welfare and more like a regulatory sentence
Chocolate manufacturers blame commodity costs for shrinking products and rising prices, but the numbers tell a different story
A US defence contractor's iPhone hacking tools were sold to a Russian broker, weaponised by Chinese criminals, and repurposed by teenage jailbreakers in under twelve months
Montana Brown's viral outrage over sticky toffee pudding reveals everything wrong with how Britain talks about feeding its children
KFC, Nando's and others abandon breed commitments for an industry-led forum that drops the most consequential welfare requirement
Huy Fong Foods destroyed its 28-year partnership with the farmer who grew every jalapeño in the bottle. Then it watched the sauce turn orange.
The prediction market industry promised the wisdom of crowds. What it delivered was the world's most accessible intelligence leak, and the scramble to contain it may already be too late.
A dormant worm, a privileged account, and the systemic vulnerabilities of the internet's most important encyclopaedia