About me

• Degree in Mathematics

• Journalist at The Independent and New Scientist. Parliamentary Lobby.

• Constituency Agent for Labour in Hampstead & Highgate in 1992

• Started Research Fortnight in 1994, sold it in 2018

• Ongoing scholarly project understanding politics as being rooted in attempts to establish control in the face of inadequate measurements

• Most recently, but no longer, I was Adviser to Chi Onwurah, Labour’s scandalously under-appreciated science spokeswoman.