Hi, I’m Benjamin Welby. I live in Croydon with my wife and two children. I church at Croydon Vineyard. We’ve had season tickets for Bradford City since 2007. I’ve got degrees in History, Post-War Recovery and Public Administration and have spent the last 15+ years working on public sector digital transformation at local, national, and international levels.
I’m interested in too many things and this blog is about most of them: being a good husband and father, following Jesus, the theology of governing well, a warm welcome for refugees and asylum seekers, that ‘digital’ leads to fair, inclusive and equitable transformation, exploring the world, League One football, Pantomime, the England cricket team...
A few weeks ago, my church leaders asked if I could put together something that might help us think as Christians about some of the more alarming headlines. This is my attempt: not a definitive Christian position on AI, but a way into some of the questions I think matter.
A note on AI: unsurprisingly, I’ve also used AI to write about AI. It helped me find and check ...
Earlier this week I was having a conversation about data centres, AI, and the fairly febrile state of mind surrounding both of them at the moment.
There are sensible arguments to have about where data centres go, what they require and who benefits from them. There are even bigger arguments about what AI might do to work, to public services and to the institutions we...
A note before you go further: I’ve supported men’s health through Movember for years, and I’m conscious that this piece plays deliberately with a word that describes something devastatingly real.
Suicide is not a metaphor: around 125 people die by suicide each week in the UK, and around three quarters of them are men. Suicide is the single biggest ...
Last week A-level results dropped.
And a video popped up in my YouTube subscriptions from GOV.UK suggesting that students download the GOV.UK app to search GOV.UK for what to do next.
It’s a bit odd when we already have an app for searching the web. A...
When the first briefings appeared over the weekend about abolishing the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), I decided to wait.
Machinery of Government changes have an awkward period in which the headline is certain but most of the consequential detail is not. Which teams are going where? Who owns the budgets, controls and responsibilities? Whic...