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In this section, you can find all of my blog posts reporting on things I’ve attended.

2026

HMRC letterhead

SLC Complaint

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HMRC letterhead

HMRC Complaint

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Amended tax calculation from HMRC
BananaQuest

How Fares the Banana Reclamation?

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Predatory payday loans company
BananaQuest

Why Did HMRC Send Me to a Payday Loans Company?

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HMRC letterhead
BananaQuest

Come, Mister Tally Man

Steal All My Bananas

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2025

Architecture diagram

Mapping Out My Infrastructure

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2024

A message displayed by the Starling mobile app, titled 'Your device hasn't passed our security checks'. The message text reads 'This might be because your device's settings have been changed, or there's an application installed that's trying to manipulate the Starling app. Find our more in our blog. To continue using the app on this device, please restore it to factory settings. If this doesn't sound right, please email help@starlingbank.com'. The only available button says 'Close app'.
The Slop Chronicles

Fuck Starling Bank

(but, really, fuck Google)

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2023

Cover of a worn British passport
Bentral American Diaries

Back to the UK

Conclusion

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The New York City skyline at night, seen from across the Hudson
Bentral American Diaries

East Coast

New York and New Jersey

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Church on top of a hill
Bentral American Diaries

Mexico

Chiapas, Oaxaca & Mexico City

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Me sleeping on the prow of a boat, with other sat above my head
Bentral American Diaries

Honduras & Guatemala

feat. yet more Costa Rica

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A sunrise over Havana
Bentral American Diaries

Cuba

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2022

A wireframe statue of a man sat looking out over the Calabrian coastline.
Europespeditions

Europespedition III

Leds Free or Die Hard

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A monkey bike in the foreground, dwarfed by mountains in the background

Monkey Run Scotland

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Rethinking Security

Steps to Sustainable Peace with Justice

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The Tower of Babel

Jesus Against Empire

Solidarity, Liberation, and the Poor in the time of Jesus

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LibrePlanet 2022

Living Liberation

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2021

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Understanding the UK Online Safety Bill

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An artist's impression of the Eden Project North

Introducing the Morecambe Bay Curriculum

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UK Military Spending and its Alternatives

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Freeway, Los Angeles, 2009
DisTex

Coping with imaginative resistance

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DisTex

Introducing MANTRaP

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Lancaster Castle

Gay Graffiti at Lancaster Castle

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Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flies on a simulated Navy aerial reconnaissance flight near the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) off the coast of southern California on Dec. 5, 1995.
DisTex

Language, cognition and drone warfare

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Close up of a desk globe, centered on China
LUCI/LUCC Seminar Series

China’s Political System

Responding to Giant Crises

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A couple of young people carrying cards during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution in El Tahrir Square
Language, Ideology and Power

A study of how Egyptian Bloggers shaped the UK newspaper coverage of Political Events in Egypt

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2020

A human skull over a US flag
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

The Necro-Geopolitics of American Insecurity

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2019

Palestinians marching on the separation wall
DisTex

28 Palestinians Died

A Cognitive Grammar analysis of mystification in press coverage of state violence on the Gaza border

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Illegal deforestation for Palm Oil plantation
Climate Change

Climate Change Reviews

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A silhouetted head comprising various mental health-related words
Language, Ideology and Power

The concept of disorder

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African albino girl

From Albinism in Africa to the Lancashire Witches

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Chinese anti-Japan demonstrators
LUCI/LUCC Seminar Series

Chinese public opinion’s role in crisis diplomacy

Preliminary findings from the field

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Student demonstrators march past the London Houses of Parliament in opposition to planned spending cuts to further education and an increase in tuition fees, November 2010.

Nurturing Dissent

Developing the Unruly Subject in Higher Education

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Student Housing Lancaster

The Tale of 64 Blades Street

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TICTeC 2019

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A mind map of questions relating to research

Future Data Practices

Perpetuate Inequalities or Design for Change?

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2018

Students at a nightclub wearing white T-shirts

In (Partial) Defence of Snowsports

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A skull comprising various aggressive words
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

Violence and its Discontents

Groups and identities in security research

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A black and white still of Taika Waititi
Language, Ideology and Power

Interrogating Free Speech Versus Hate Speech on the Internet

A discourse perspective

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UK Internet Governance Forum 2018

Solutions for The Digital Age

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The Earth seen from space

Technosphere

Technology, Agency and the Future of the Earth Workshop

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Security Lancaster Seminar Series

The Lancashire Constabulary Vulnerable Callers Initiative

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A map of the US–Canada border
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

Crime Journeys

High-Risk Offending Across Space and Time

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A woman reaching out to a robot
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

Machine Learning for Cyber Security

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William Hague

Britain’s Role in a Future World

William Hague at the ISF

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A man in a pillory
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Why I Lost Friends and Alienated People

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A poster reading 'Use gender neutral language'
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

How I Lost Friends and Alienate People

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On Gamergate

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The bank of England
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

Shipping Containers, Russian Criminals, American Spooks and Nuclear Weapons

An intelligence-led case study of a cyber breach

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Lancaster University under construction
UCU Teach Out

Radical or Simply Younger

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Students at a protest, holding a banner that reads 'Solidarity forever'
UCU Teach Out

What makes a successful social movement?

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Feminist superwoman smashing glass ceiling
UCU Teach Out

Should we (still) be fixing the women?

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Architectural mockup
UCU Teach Out

What kind of uni do we want?

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UCU Teach Out

Unis Resist Border Controls Workshop

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A notebook with '6/10 could do better' written in red ink
UCU Teach Out

Linguistics Lay-In

A Critical Analysis Workshop

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Cocoa beans, powder and bars of chocolate
UCU Teach Out

Fairtrade Towns

Inspired by History

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A silhouette of a face
UCU Teach Out

This house, as a university student, would support the national strikes

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UCU Teach Out

Universities, Inc.

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Revolution in Rojava

Report Back from Civil Volunteers

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BSides Leeds 2018

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A Nokē Smart Lock
Security Lancaster Seminar Series

Earworms Make Bad Passwords

An Analysis of the Nokē Smart Lock Manual Override

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2017

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SCC Distinguished Seminar Series

Responsible Autonomy

AI, safety, ethics and legality

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2016

Lancaster University logo
SCC Distinguished Seminar Series

Are Sensor Networks a first step towards the Diamond Age?

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LUSU Web site homepage

Found a problem with the site?

Everything that’s wrong with the new LUSU website

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Magna Carta

Magna Carta

Its Resurrection, 1216–1616

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Lancaster University logo
SCC Distinguished Seminar Series

Symbiotic Design

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