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Fellowship Candidates 2026/27

This is the website of the 2026/27 cohort of fellowship candidates at Newspeak House, the London College of Political Technology. We publish a newsletter called Dispatches.

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Rhi’s updates

Rhi’s updates from Dispatches, the newsletter of the Newspeak House 2026/27 fellowship candidates. Newest first.

Dispatches #4

4 November 2026 · from Dispatches #4: Software to solve the software

At last week’s Ration Club I had a great conversation with Hannah about what the next move could, would or should be for my work tracking decisions around the freeze on trans surgery in Wales.

Thinking about where in the campaign process something like this sits, and what its purpose is. I’m now refocusing the site for 1. people who might want to do an action to support and 2. finding others who may want to lobby on these issues now or in the future. This then clarifies the layout and content of the site in a way that has been super useful. I’m aiming to have a revised working version up in the next week or so.

I have also been learning how to use Feather 3D to make 3D models for a game I’m working on. I have some limited experience with 3D modelling, but it’s a different approach when you’re drawing in 3D space on a 2D surface. The working title is ‘this snow covered valley’, and I’m aiming to have a short 10-minute demo together in the next few months.

I have also been spending time setting up a home server (an old laptop) and experimenting with using Claude scheduled tasks at various times of the day. I’ve been working on a personal time management and to-do app to try to visualise and track everything I need to know, hosted on said laptop. Time will tell how much of this project is procrastination and how much sticks.

Dispatches #2

21 October 2026 · from Dispatches #2: On Discord, Recordkeeping, Campaign Fringe, and more

This week I finished and shared this blog post, The Haunting of Portishead. It’s about the band Portishead, hauntology, and how different components of music work together to create a m o o d.

Inspired by our first taught session on Monday, I’ve also made a website/label for the projects I’m working on right now. It’s called no-good narrative, and I’m hoping having somewhere to put things will help with getting them done/shipped. 

Trans Healthcare Radar Cymru is now live, though it's still very much a work in progress. I’m now looking to share it with groups for feedback. I’ve been thinking about utility and scope, and how you can assess/determine both. The thinking hasn't gotten anywhere, but I decided I might as well click publish and move forward. 

Dispatches #1

14 October 2026 · from Dispatches #1: The Lab is here, and so is our first newsletter

I’ve spent the past few weeks site mapping upcoming NHS, Welsh Government and Senedd meetings that bear on unfreezing Welsh gender services.

I have a prototype and am aiming to get a hosted version out this week. I hit a plateau with a project I’ve been running to scrape far-right Telegram channels, so I am now working on a wrap-up post pulling out lessons learned and what I got from the project. 

I have also been working on a piece about Portishead and Hauntology that I’m aiming to put out on my blog next week. 

At Newspeak House, I’ve been auditing the Library, and it’s been great seeing books I recognize and others I haven’t.