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The people who keep it running

Essays22 minMembers only

An essay about maintenance, and why the work that stops things from breaking is invisible in every budget it appears in.

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The water investigation, part two: the documents

Investigations44 minMembers only

Four months ago we published what people told us. This is what the paperwork says, and the two accounts do not agree. The first sixty pages arrived in a box with no covering letter.

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Commissioning notes: the four we did not run

Commissioning12 minMembers only

What was pitched, what was paid for, and why it did not get published.

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The people who keep it running

Essays22 minMembers only

An essay about maintenance, and why the work that stops things from breaking is invisible in every budget it appears in.

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Interview: forty years of saying no to developers

Interviews35 minMembers only

Nineteen thousand words, cut to nine. The full transcript is in the library for subscribers.

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The accounts, in full

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What came in, what went out, and what everybody was paid. Published every year.

The archive, indexed by subject

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Every piece published, grouped by what it is actually about rather than by when it ran.