Before Tortoise, Kim was a Google News Initiative Fellow at the Financial Times, and following that was a data journalist with Sifted, the FT’s sister publication about tech.
Kim Darrah
“Data can be a useful tool to cut through the noise and get to the truth. It’s our job to make that happen.”
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Thursday 28 April 2022
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Sensemaker: Anonymous food
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Wednesday 6 April 2022
The pay gap gap
The UK has a gender pay gap problem. It’s not just the gap, which still favours men over women across much of the economy. It’s a bizarre loophole that can mask unfairness and financial insecurity.
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Wednesday 6 April 2022
10 minute read Sensemaker: The pay gap gap
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Tuesday 29 March 2022
Gas guzzlers
In a climate and energy crisis, the UK’s leaky, old housing stock is an extravagance neither people nor the planet can afford.
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Friday 18 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Moscow mules
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Thursday 2 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker Special: A new age of robotics
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Thursday 2 December 2021
AI Boom Time
The fourth iteration of the Tortoise Global AI Index, which ranks 62 countries on their capacity for AI development, is released today. Its key finding: levels of global investment into artificial intelligence have surged to record levels
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Thursday 2 December 2021
Tory MPs signed up to a conference of men’s rights activists
Tortoise has found that two Conservative parliamentarians committed to speak at an online event organised by “anti-feminists”
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Thursday 14 October 2021
Under the cover of Covid, big businesses are rolling back their commitments to fair pay and the planet
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Tuesday 28 September 2021
The world just missed its first major vaccine target. Here’s why
Ten per cent of every country’s population was meant to be fully vaccinated by the end of this month. But poorer countries, in particular, just haven’t had the doses
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Friday 3 September 2021
The Arms Race: Beta Vaccine Tracker
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Tuesday 27 July 2021
CEOs facing backlash for pay hikes
A Tortoise analysis reveals that 38 companies in the FTSE 100 have awarded bigger pay packages to their CEOs during the pandemic – a time of general economic hardship and rising inequality
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Tuesday 27 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Pandemic pay hikes
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Wednesday 9 June 2021
Europe falls behind in the AI race
A weak startup ecosystem is holding the EU back from unleashing its full potential in the AI space, while the US and China still reign supreme, according to the latest release of the Tortoise Global AI Index
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Thursday 22 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Fossil fools
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Thursday 8 April 2021
What teenagers are telling us on Everyone’s Invited
Young people have shared 14,000 accounts of rape culture at over 600 different schools. Analysis of their testimonies reveals the challenges children face, and what they want done about it
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Wednesday 24 February 2021
Tax and Honour
A very British jetsetter
Sir Jim Ratcliffe owns a yacht and private planes. Do their movements provide clues about when the billionaire businessman moved to the tax haven of Monaco?
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Friday 19 February 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Could a wealth tax pay for Covid?
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Tuesday 16 February 2021
WallStreetWins
Who are WallStreetBets?
What can we say about the people posting in the Reddit forum that tied down giants of finance?
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Tuesday 26 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Tesco’s awkward pay gap
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Monday 25 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Tesco’s awkward pay gap
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Thursday 21 January 2021
The Trump hangover
Could it happen again?
We investigate not just whether Trump might run again – but how. This is what his 2024 campaign might look like
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Friday 15 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The race is on
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Thursday 14 January 2021
The Vaccine
A user’s guide
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Thursday 7 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: DC insurrection
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Thursday 31 December 2020
Trucked off
As new paperwork checks begin on 1 January, truck queues could bring yet more chaos to Kent’s roads. Our tool lets you watch traffic build up at the border, as it happens.
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Friday 18 December 2020
Is the UK losing its edge on AI?
The country comes third in Tortoise’s AI Index, which seems impressive until you start looking closer…
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Thursday 3 December 2020
Who is leading the world in AI?
The UK slips back and China gains ground on the USA
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Tuesday 1 December 2020
Inside the NHS: part two
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Tuesday 24 November 2020
Quarantines and travel corridors: a wasted summer?
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Thursday 29 October 2020
10 minute read
Sensemaker, 29 October 2020
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Tuesday 5 April 2022
The gender pay gap bot
On International Women’s Day, a Twitter bot drew attention to the gender pay gap in Britain’s biggest companies. But does the data they report tell the full story?
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Thursday 17 February 2022
The price of pasta
Inflation has hit a 30-year high as energy, fuel and food costs continue to soar. A humble bag of pasta can tell us why the price of supermarket basics are rising.