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OpenAI's CFO: 4 questions that reveal if your AI spend is paying off

Forget cost per token. Sarah Friar argues CFOs should judge AI by the work it actually completes.

Fortune · Jul 17

Why corporate strategy is moving to the CFO's office

At a recent McKinsey forum, most CFOs said the strategy function now reports to them.

Fortune · Jul 13

I taught art in a high-security prison – Waiting for the Out took me straight back to my classroom

Watching Waiting for the Out, the BBC’s flagship new drama series, transported me straight back to my classroom in HMP Wakefield in the mid-1990s. This decaying Victorian building at the heart of a challenged city in the north of England is one of the UK’s ten category-A, high-security prisons for…

The Conversation · Jan 9

Andy West obituary

Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2025

Waiting For The Out: cast, plot and everything we know

Waiting For The Out stars Josh Finan as a man who teaches in a prison but starts questioning if he too belongs behind bars.

WhatToWatch · Jul 10, 2025

Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of art activism beloved by Banksy

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the stencil he used to create the work (a projected £10 million) to set up an arts…

The Conversation · May 23, 2025

Literary escapes! 10 top London authors on their summer must-reads

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

Evening Standard · Jun 1, 2023

Economic levers and buying players who can’t play: Explaining Barcelona’s unexplainable summer

Salary reductions, economic levers, free transfers they can’t afford to register and over €160m spent elsewhere anyway – what’s going on at the Camp Nou this season?

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2022

Right from Wrong; Criminal; The Life Inside review – the problem with our prisons

Three different viewpoints on the UK’s system of incarceration – by Jacob Dunne, Angela Kirwin and Andy West – examine the human cost of our investment in punishment rather than rehabilitation

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2022