A recent comment from RobertJ on this blog made me smile, and then made me think. He wrote of Funding the Future: Topsy has growed
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Contextualising data
I was talking to a journalist yesterday. It is an occupational hazard of my role. He was interested in the traffic data for my YouTube
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The politics of care in 2026
The Funding the Future team had what you might call an “awayday” yesterday, except that it did not last all day, and we only went
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PDFs
A number of people have asked of late if we might make it easier to share articles published here, and some suggested it would be
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Why not a think tank?
The suggestion was made here yesterday that Funding the Future should turn itself into a think tank and seek more formal bases for funding for
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What to do?
Voltaire supposedly said: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. The logic is that if people surrender their reason and
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Cambridge, 28 February 2026
With Christmas and New Year well and truly over, it seems like a good time to remind you that we are holding an in-person event
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Going short
As I mentioned in a video earlier this week, one of our plans for this year is to expand our output on short-form video platforms.
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Where we go next in 2026
2025 has been an extraordinary year for this channel. 30 million views. Hundreds of thousands of new subscribers. And, more importantly, a growing appetite for
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