Computing
Our Future
No doubt you are all heartily cheesed off hearing about AI and how it is going to change our lives. Today I want to concentrate on two differing visions. One is from Bill F Gates, [more…]
Blog
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty-Three
I see that ‘The Adults in the Room’ are ploughing depths of idiocy unparalleled in the history of these Fair Isles. Someone, somehow, please make it stop! The number joining Restore is soaring week by [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Eighteen
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was sunny and fairly warm this morning when I popped out. Not a good weekend, as Legohead was around and held a couple of press conferences where he was [more…]
Engineering
Plain Sailing towards a Future Navy?
Although the present crisis in the Gulf has provoked both mockery and concern at the thinness of the Navy, a lump came to the throat all the same when seeing HMS Dragon finally leave Portsmouth [more…]
Fiction
On Dangerous Ground, Chapter Ten
Week Three As Dave drove off to start work, he stopped level with the car the Americans were in, he wound down his window, he indicated for them to do the same. “I’m going Ubering, [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1997
A History of Pop Music – 1997 This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12 March 2026 The Panel: Lucy Powell (Labour) Harriet Baldwin (Conservative) Sian Berry (Green Party) Kay Burley (Journalist) Fraser Nelson (Journalist) Venue: Wythenshawe If you’re wondering why we’re being tormented by an endless [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Twenty-One
Jinnie didn’t like to impose on Izzy’s cooking skills while they were in Barbados. It was her holiday as well as everyone else’s, but she still willingly did more than her fair share of childminding. [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 9 Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, these days better known as Baron Mandelson, has had to resign 3 times from official positions. A devious snake of a man one hopes he is finally out of our sight. He [more…]