The crew discuss things that are being displaced by digital technology, and what that means for society, democracy and governance.

In part 2, of this Inscrutable Systems mini series, we recap on Part 1, and draw some essential conclusions, on both the techical and political sides of the argument. We also go discuss issues at large, including modern day software complexity. Kate and Andy discuss some important psychological factors, including issues like the public's blind faith in technology and software, and how do we make ourselves less vulnerable to this?

In this episode we go into the background of this scandal, its technical, legal and cultural aspects. We examine where British justice gets things wrong, and what it gets right. We look at technical issues of syncing distributed databases, and talk about forensic issues, reliable logs, back doors, software engineering and standards of evidence. We also look at psychological notions of user error bias, spirals of silence, identification and victim blaming.

In this first visual episode, Ed and Helen speak to special guest, Mercy Ageitu, about Fake Women in Tech, what that means, and many of the problems still faced by women in the workplace, especially in the tech industry.

In this episode of reflections, Helen and Andy continue to analyse the work of the late Dana Meadows, one of the greatest systems thinkers. This episode covers part 2, communications and delays.

In this episode of In The Chair, we speak to Dr Kate Brown about online dating and how people meet each other using phones. Do online dating apps lead to healthy and successful relations, or are they just best for hookups and fun?

In this episode of reflections, Helen and Andy analyse the work of the late Dana Meadows, one of the greatest systems thinkers. Helen starts by reading from Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System.

Helen and Andy go out into Southampton's East Park for a day, collecting vox pops. These informal street-interviews were our own market research for the podcast and our teaching activities. Do you get the idea of personal cybersecurity or digital self-defence? Who would benefit most from it? Would you attend classes like that? Who can teach it? Who pays for it and how much should it cost?

In Episode 2 of our Audio, Music and Poetry series, Ed reads 'Without a Phone Poem' by JourneyHolm, Dr Kate Brown reads 'Text' by Carol Ann Duffy, and 'Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone' by Sylvia Plath, and Helen reads 'Robot Revolution' by Elaine Perrin.

On this feature length special episode marking the start of Season 2, join Andy, Helen and Ed, special guest Dr Kate Brown, in-house tenacious investigative reporter Faith and various members of the public as they tear apart (and lovingly put back together) the UK Online Safety Bill, currently progressing through our parliament. After countless revisions, modifications and additions, is the premise of the bill still what it was originally intended to be?