Issue 044 · Saturday, 8 August 2026
The machine files its accounts
5 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilSomewhere in Companies House sits the most honest account of automation in Britain, and it is an annual report
- Dr. Ines CalderónInside Ocado's Luton warehouse a robot arm picks groceries at a rate no human matches, because a tote is not a hedgerow
- James VahidOcado automated the picking and not the driving. Its accounts show one cost line standing still while the other climbs
- Ada OkaforPeople notice a robot when it is announced and stop noticing once it is audited
- Henry OgundipeWorthing had never played this high before today. By full time they had beaten Carlisle at Brunton Park