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Building Insight: Revolutionising Corporate Estate Management – Book Review

16 Monday Mar 2026

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Angelica Bush, Madrid, Monday 16th March 2026

The Architecture of Insight: A Masterclass in the Corporate Built Environment

In the grand, sweeping narrative of global commerce, we have long obsessed over the movement of capital and the flux of labour. Yet, we have been curiously blind to the very stage upon which this drama unfolds: the corporate estate. In his magisterial new work, Building Insight: Data, Information and Advanced Analytics in Corporate Real Estate, Martyn Jones, a “whisperer of unruly data” with a pedigree that reads like a Cold War thriller, seeks to rectify this oversight.

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Building Insight: The Future of Corporate Real Estate – Book Review

15 Sunday Mar 2026

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Francesca Fraser, Sunday Madrid 15th March 2026

Review: Building Insight: Data, Information and Advanced Analytics in Corporate Real Estate, by Martyn Jones

In the quiet corners of corporate life, far from the glamour of mergers, the drama of markets, or the mythology of founders, lies a function that quietly consumes billions: corporate real estate. Offices, campuses, warehouses, data centres, and laboratories. They are the stage sets on which modern organisations perform. Yet the management of this built world has often been treated as a back-office craft rather than a strategic discipline.

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Celtic Domination: A Literary Journey of Identity and Vision – Book Review

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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Celtic, European and Worldly

Heidi Katushka, Times Literary Supplement, Oxford, Saturday, 7th March 2026

In Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers, Martyn de Tours (a pseudonym of the prolific, contrarian strategist Martyn Jones) has produced a work that is at once a novel, a manifesto, a pilgrimage memoir, and a speculative blueprint for pan-Celtic resurgence. Published in 2025 and running to some 428 pages in its paperback edition, the book arrives like a fever dream dispatched from the Camino de Santiago, where the author has evidently spent considerable time walking, talking, and ruminating. The result is a text that defies easy categorization, part sibling reunion laced with intrigue, part philosophical treatise on identity and power, part utopian pamphlet for a “Celtic Union”, and yet it coheres, after a fashion, through sheer audacity and the insistent pulse of its Celtic romanticism.

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F*CK DATA MESH: The Contrarian’s Take on Data Tech – Book Review

06 Friday Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Vacuous

Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Schmesh’ is a Schmess

Paula Prada Price, New College Tech Review, Notting Hill, Friday, 6th March 2026

Martyn Jones’s F*CK DATA MESH is a bracing, profane, and essential Broadside against the Silicon Valley hype machine.*

In the glittering circus of modern data tech, where vendors hawk “revolutionary” architectures like snake oil at a Silicon Valley swap meet, Martyn Jones has lobbed what can only be described as a literary Molotov cocktail titled F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge. It’s less a book than a gleefully profane haymaker aimed squarely at the jaw of the industry’s latest sacred cow. And reader, it connects.

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Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management – Book Review

06 Friday Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Vacuous

Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Mesh’ is a Mess

Lady Amanda Percival, The Wired Wire, Kensington, Friday, 6th March 2026

Martyn Jones’s F*CK DATA MESH is a bracing, profane, and essential Broadside against the Silicon Valley hype machine.*

In the hushed boardrooms of the Fortune 500, “Data Mesh” has become the latest secular religion. It promises a decentralized utopia where data is treated as a product and domain owners are liberated from the “monolithic” tyranny of the central data warehouse. But according to Martyn Jones, a man whose career has seen the rise and fall of more tech fads than a McKinsey slide deck, this new paradigm is less of a revolution and more of a “fraudulent flim-flam sauce” served up by consultants looking for their next utilization spike.

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F*CK DATA MESH: A Critical Look at Data Trends – Book Review

05 Thursday Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Clowns

F*CK DATA MESH: A polemic against fashionable nonsense in the data economy

Alicia Altmann, The Middle Digital Review, Chicago, 5th March 2026.

In the technology industry, few phrases age faster than the latest architectural revolution. “Serverless”, “big data”, “blockchain”, each arrives with evangelical certainty before quietly settling into the background noise of enterprise IT. Into this cycle of hype steps Martyn Jones’s gleefully abrasive book, F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge*. Its title alone signals that this is less a manual than a polemic: a sharply written protest against what the author sees as the fashionable amnesia of modern data discourse.

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F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions – Book Review

05 Thursday Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Imbeciles

F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions

Review by Bella Carmela, WiredWiredWired, Silicon Valley, Thursday 5th March 2026

In the hyper-connected, AI-obsessed circus of modern enterprise tech, where every startup pitches a “revolutionary” data paradigm like it’s the next iPhone, Martyn Jones drops a bomb: Fck Data Mesh*. Subtitled The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge, this 2025 manifesto isn’t your typical dry treatise on ETL pipelines or cloud migrations. It’s a rollicking, profane takedown of the industry’s sacred cows… Data Mesh, Lakehouses, and the endless hype cycle that turns solid data strategies into vaporware. Written with the acerbic wit of a Welsh data veteran who’s seen it all (from mainframes to metadata meltdowns), Jones channels the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson meets Dilbert, urging businesses to wake up before their next “transformative” initiative sinks another billion into the swamp.

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The Glorious Books of Martyn

11 Sunday Jan 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones, with the capable assistance of Amy Grok McGrockicle

Madrid, Sunday 11 January 2026

Introduction to the Collected Reviews of Martyn Jones

In an age awash with earnest manifestos, sanctimonious tech tomes, and the relentless hum of corporate orthodoxy, Martyn Jones arrives. He comes like a gleeful heretic at the cathedral door. He is armed with profanity and philosophical bite. He also has an irrepressible instinct for the absurd.

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Weaving the Dragon’s Data: A Welsh-Inspired Tale for Enterprise Architects in the New Year – 2026/01/01

08 Thursday Jan 2026

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Martyn Muses – 2026/01/01

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Location, 22nd December 2025

Weaving the Dragon’s Data: A Welsh-Inspired Tale for Enterprise Architects in the New Year – 2026/01/01

The calendar turns to a fresh page in this crisp January of 2026. We, enterprise data and information architects, stand at a new threshold. Another year welcomes us, brimming with digital transformations. Data lakes swell like the River Taff after a storm. Information architectures evolve like the ancient mountain tops of Snowdonia. But amidst the algorithms and schemas, let’s pause for a moment of whimsy. What if we drew inspiration from the misty realms of Welsh myths and legends? Wales, that land of dragons and bards, offers a tapestry of stories. These stories mirror our quests: taming chaotic data into structured wisdom. They are about preserving cultural legacies in vast repositories. They ignite innovation from the sparks of history. In this Happy New Year ode, we’ll begin a narrative journey through Welsh lore. It is infused with the spirits of its iconic figures. Dylan Thomas, Dannie Abse, Richard Burton, Shirley Bassey, Paul Robeson, and Gwynfor Evans are part of this infusion. These spirits illuminate the art of data stewardship.

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