Time is flying by - was musing earlier on how the h*ck it could already be 1st June. But one consequence, I just heard my first use in the wild

Time is flying by - was musing earlier on how the h*ck it could already be 1st June. But one consequence, I just heard my first use in the wild by a journalist live on TV without irony that is as welcome as the first swallow of spring: 'Trump needs

Sturgeon's ex husband and onetime chief exec of the SNP whilst she was its leader sits in prison at the moment awaiting sentencing, for around £400,000 of fraud/theft of party

Sturgeon's ex husband and onetime chief exec of the SNP whilst she was its leader sits in prison at the moment awaiting sentencing, for around £400,000 of fraud/theft of party funds. From the trial, and the many pages of items it listed that he had charged on expenses without authorisation,

Politicians - whether they're party leaders or election candidates - are getting the heat for what they Retweet. Some folk say 'RT isn't important - it doesn't mean they back

Politicians - whether they're party leaders or election candidates - are getting the heat for what they Retweet. Some folk say 'RT isn't important - it doesn't mean they back it'. Really? Imagine someone gave you a paper political pamphlet in the street saying these things. Then you gave them

The Tories lost 563 councilors in the May 2026 local elections - 41% of the seats it was defending. ie Only 59% of councilors survived. For comparison, out of 325

The Tories lost 563 councilors in the May 2026 local elections - 41% of the seats it was defending. ie Only 59% of councilors survived. For comparison, out of 325 1st Class passengers, 202 survived - 62%. (Of the 2208 people on board, 705 survived. The crew had the lowest

Today the BBC announced the concerts in the 2026 season of concerts, running from 17th July to 12th September. The full BBC programme is out now in bookshops or here:

Today the BBC announced the concerts in the 2026 season of concerts, running from 17th July to 12th September. The full BBC programme is out now in bookshops or here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms For years now I've added basic details of the concerts into a public Google Calendar that people can subscribe

We've grown used to drones in a range of circumstances - warfare for example, or self driving cars, or sometimes delivery drones tootling along pavements. Seeing them in video from

We've grown used to drones in a range of circumstances - warfare for example, or self driving cars, or sometimes delivery drones tootling along pavements. Seeing them in video from warehouse like Ocado or Amazon moving pallets of good around is routine now too. Fixed robots have long been come

Possibly just a perception thing, but there is a weird seeming difference between UK and continental Europe is the way crims commit crimes: there seem to be much more use

Possibly just a perception thing, but there is a weird seeming difference between UK and continental Europe is the way crims commit crimes: there seem to be much more use of tunnels in crime on the continent than there is in the UK. Is this some cultural thing in the

Millions of kilometers have been driven by prototype self driving systems from multiple companies at varying degrees of maturity, often with a human sitting behind the wheel able to intervene

Millions of kilometers have been driven by prototype self driving systems from multiple companies at varying degrees of maturity, often with a human sitting behind the wheel able to intervene if needed. In a few places actual self driving cars are in use, like Waymo in San Francisco and some

Just seeing what this is about. And maybe my longer thread posts would be better done as posts here.

Just seeing what this is about. And maybe my longer thread posts would be better done as posts here.