Hello.

I’m John Peart. I’m a policy professional with an interest in technology, services and diversity.

2024

26 July

Friendly. But socially awkward.
25 July

More LGBT+ MPs than ever before
21 July

Everything old is new again
13 July

Extreme vibe shift
7 July

Unmute
29 May

Help me to update the list of LGBT+ MPs
17 May

3 weeks. 3 things.
14 May

We’ll sell 25 million PS5 consoles, no 21M, actually 20.8M.
14 May

Why Did the Eurovision Song Contest Look Odd This Year?
9 May

Send me a (Web)mention
26 April

Chitting the chat
21 April

Books to read in 2024
20 April

Mario meets Pareto
19 April

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations
16 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2024 entry, so you don’t have to
12 April

Finding out how I make decisions
12 April

Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2024
6 April

Parliament and Government should be in the fediverse
5 April

A long and winding road(map)
2 April

One week. One note. One thing.
24 March

RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: ‘It’s mind-blowing how it inspired me’
22 March

Doing Weeknotes
15 March

Open policy making meets agile comms
10 March

Sharing music on my blog
9 March

An ‘Ideas’ page.
5 March

Now.
2 March

Push the button
2 March

Own Your Web – Issue 10: Links Worth Sharing
1 March

Olly Alexander - Dizzy
22 February

Policy by vibes
17 February

Broadcasting my philosophies at work
6 February

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
4 February

Life stack
23 January

Corporate training needs content design
16 January

Please, Expose your RSS
1 January

Setting some goals for 2024

2023

28 December

Assassin’s Creed Mirage Was Juuusssttt Right
28 December

Things that went right in 2023
28 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2023 goals
9 December

Recipes are broken
7 December

What if… Post-It notes?
4 December

Stoutie
18 November

That! Feels! Good!
31 October

Making “Webmentions” look more conversational
2 September

A decade of public service
30 July

Into the Fediverse
23 July

A parts bin iPod Classic
1 May

I listened to every Eurovision 2023 entry, so you don’t have to
6 February

Calculating the cost of my subscriptions
1 January

Setting some goals for 2023

2022

24 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2022 goals
31 July

Thoughts on Apple Fitness+ from a fitness newbie
20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2022 entry, so you don’t have to
28 March

Lemur ask you a question
28 March

Monkeying around
24 March

Mordor?
22 January

Tea cups
22 January

Burning brightly
1 January

Setting some goals for 2022

2021

31 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2021 goals
1 June

A swan in Finsbury Park
1 May

I listened to every Eurovision 2021 entry, so you don’t have to
28 January

Why I quit Instagram

2020

31 December

Setting some goals for 2021
21 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2020 goals
26 November

Birthday cake
23 November

NES frame
31 August

Cocoa
31 August

I want that one
30 August

No egrets
11 April

Building a Twitter bot for the ‘Department of Administrative Affairs’
4 April

I listened to every defunct Eurovision 2020 entry, so you don’t have to
28 March

How to be a better communicator when your team is working remotely
23 March

How to hold better video and telephone conference calls
15 March

A podcast in the making: iterating on the idea
26 February

Doors should not need instructions
24 February

Why I made a dataset of LGBT MPs
18 January

On the occasion of my death, do this with my digital footprint

2019

31 December

Setting some goals for 2020
26 December

Reviewing my progress against my 2019 goals
9 December

Apple’s peculiar typographic choices
22 November

Cooper
22 November

He’s a good boy
7 September

Olafur Eliasson
1 September

Being an LGBT+ ally should feel uncomfortable
25 August

Pretty in pink
25 August

A city of contrasts
14 July

Trying out the new Citymapper Pass
6 July

Life in rainbow colours
2 July

Pride at Number 10
2 June

Creating a scoreboard for my Eurovision house party
27 May

A podcast in the making: the RSS feed and hosting
9 May

Yawn
7 May

What are you looking at?
4 May

Leaping lizards!
20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2019 entry, so you don’t have to
11 February

A podcast in the making: setting up a website
11 February

A podcast in the making: getting started
27 January

I’m making a podcast
26 January

I’ve fallen in love with a USB connector
23 January

Golden Falls
23 January

The Great Geysir
22 January

The Blue Lagoon
19 January

Above the clouds

2018

31 December

Setting some goals for 2019
18 December

Goodbye Facebook
16 December

I’m going to fail at nearly all my goals for 2018
5 December

#LGBTsurvey: things that didn’t surprise me
4 December

#LGBTsurvey: things that surprised me
28 November

Living with Apple Watch Series 4
2 November

Fireworks at Ally Pally
11 October

I lied to my hairdresser
1 October

#LGBTsurvey: why it’s important
10 June

How TfL keeps screwing me for delay refunds
11 May

Peacock
10 May

Ahoy
21 April

On European city taxes and tourism
20 April

Zurich
19 April

I can see a rainbow
19 April

Love shine a light
18 April

Through the gates
18 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2018 entry, so you don’t have to
13 April

May the best drag queen win
12 April

Designed by God
9 April

Diorama
31 March

Hey Siri, bring the beat in.
17 March

“Opening up”
18 February

The most broken junctions in Westminster
4 February

Theme Hospital and gender equality
23 January

What do you call a collective of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people?
20 January

Facebook’s ridiculous plan to crowdsource news trustworthiness
3 January

Setting goals I might stick to for 2018

2017

4 November

Fireworks in Battersea
12 May

Diversity: don’t civil servants have something better to be doing?
21 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2017 entry, so you don’t have to
16 January

I made a Twitterbot to tell people the obvious

2016

4 December

Caffeine
5 November

Fireworks at Battersea
2 November

A 21st century health service: fax machines, print outs and misinformation
21 August

What happened when my blog post went viral
14 June

To my heterosexual friends: this is why Orlando hurts
28 May

A week abroad with Revolut
5 May

A year with Apple Watch
1 May

In flight
23 April

If data isn’t actionable, it’s not useful
17 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2016 entry, so you don’t have to
10 April

One week with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
12 March

Text mining tweets from the 2016 BRIT Awards
7 March

You’re queuing it wrong
26 February

I couldn’t be more happy being out where I work
7 February

Surviving a week with Apple Pay
30 January

How will the functional model affect Civil Service diversity networks?

2015

29 November

Apple TV - the revolution is coming, probably
18 May

Two weeks with Apple Watch
27 April

Who would win Eurovision if population size mattered?
20 April

I listened to every Eurovision 2015 entry, so you don’t have to
15 February

Text mining tweets from the 2015 BAFTAs
8 February

Your privacy is not the enemy
7 February

Quantified Self: analysing my Twitter data using the R statistical package

2014

28 August

Is it time for All Under-25 Shortlists?
24 August

Card clash is a catastrophuck
7 July

Why content blocks on the Internet are bad
4 February

Are we all expendable?

2013

2012

24 May

Is speciesism as bad as racism?
22 May

How does the method of aggregating votes influence the outcome of elections?
16 May

Is equality intrinsically valuable?

2011

11 December

The gender revolutionaries
8 April

Does Hobbes’ employment of natural rights take him in an absolutist direction?
8 April

Are majoritarian or proportional electoral systems better?

2010

26 October

The Dearing Compact is dead
24 October

Fees or taxes? That is the question.

2009

15 December

The Importance of Learner Voice in the 21st Century
10 December

The Challenge of Student Engagement