Opinion

Kettle, Keyboard, Existential Crisis: The British Developer's Unlikely Journey Through Remote Work

When the nation's developers were sent home in 2020, the working assumption was that Britain's legendarily reserved tech workforce would crumble without the social scaffolding of the office. What actually happened was considerably stranger, more interesting, and in several documented cases, involved a suspicious amount of sourdough. Five years on, the story of remote work and the British developer is more complicated — and more human — than anyone predicted.

Jul 14, 2026

Taught the Wrong Tricks: How Britain's Tech Education Machine Is Producing Developers Nobody Can Hire

Britain is producing more computer science graduates than ever, yet hiring managers across the UK tech sector are tearing their hair out trying to find developers who can actually do the job. Something has gone badly wrong between the classroom and the codebase, and it's costing everyone — students, companies, and frankly the entire British economy — rather a lot.

Jul 14, 2026

Please, Not Another Standup: The Case for Letting British Developers Actually Do Some Work

The daily standup was supposed to keep teams aligned. Instead, it's become the centrepiece of a meeting culture that's quietly strangling productivity in UK software shops. It's time for smaller teams to stop performing agility and start practising it — and that begins with cancelling a lot of calendar invites.

Jul 14, 2026

Small on Purpose: The Quiet Superpower of Britain's Boutique Software Builders

While American tech firms race to hire thousands and burn through venture capital at breathtaking speed, a quietly confident cohort of British software companies is doing something radical: staying small, staying profitable, and — whisper it — actually enjoying themselves. This is an argument for the boutique, the niche, and the deliberately unglamorous business that turns a tidy profit without once appearing on a VC's radar.

Jul 14, 2026