About And Another Thing

There is usually another question worth asking once the meeting has ended, the interview has finished or the person on the television has confidently explained that nothing can possibly be done. We started And Another Thing to give those questions somewhere to go.

We’ve spent much of our working life helping organisations explain themselves. That involves listening to people who know an extraordinary amount about something, asking questions they haven’t heard for a while, and finding the part that matters to somebody outside the room. It’s useful work. It also leaves you with a growing collection of arguments you’d quite like to make on your own account.

This is where we make them. We write about work, public life, useful ideas and the peculiar ways people organise things. We’re interested in homes that cope better with the weather, technology that earns its place, and the things that make an ordinary week worth having. Occasionally we listen to five albums and award them numbers that should trouble anyone with a working knowledge of arithmetic.

Our interests wander, but a few questions tend to follow us around. Who does this help? What does it actually change? Why have we decided to put up with it? A good answer might come from an expert, a neighbour, a book or somebody who has quietly been getting on with the work while everyone else discussed the strategy. We’d like to leave room for all of them.

Writing is where we develop an argument properly. Ideas holds the shorter propositions we think deserve an airing. Observations gathers things worth a look, a listen or a few minutes of your attention. Bad Takes is where the records go.

We aim to publish new writing on Mondays. A Thursday video and an audio version are planned, once we’ve persuaded the equipment to cooperate. Until then, there’s plenty to read.

We’ll have opinions, and we expect some of them to change. If you finish a piece with a better question, a useful thought or a vigorous disagreement, we’ll consider that a decent afternoon’s work.