One of the continuing strengths of Apple is its commitment to accessibility solutions both in its hardware and software. Perhaps helpful here may be the new MacBook Neo laptop based on a current iPhone chip at £600 – roughly half the price of a new MacBook Air – with clarity about the differences.
Why “As if”?
Presumably there is a Trump in a wardrobe with the skin of unblemished youth and a love of humanity beyond compare…
I already knew that I’d reached the point where I wouldn’t trust an AI Bot or Agent to boil an egg for me. On reading this woeful tale of the AI sorcerer’s apprentice’s list of futile evasions and lies, I would consider asking it to prepare a cocktail for me as unmitigated dicing with death.
The execrable misunderstanding of both our needs and any moral position by the current Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Critical statement from the boss of Anthropic – makers of the Claude AI – about its refusal to accede to the demands of Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense. Phew! All strength to Dario Amodei's elbow and tip of the hat to Gary Marcus of the Marcus on AI Substack. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
Shoe fits…
Tears of relief and delight across Bluesky as there are consequences in still functioning democracies which are holding their collective breath to see what happens in Washington DC as the US – now clearly a former democracy – approaches its 250th…
Any one who has read Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' understands that Palantir's purpose is evil. It's in the name and Peter Thiel, its founder, just like other fascists, can't resist telling us. So, yes, I have signed Zac Polanski's petition. Will you? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Open Britain is righty pushing for electoral reform for UK Parliamentary Elections. It's using Action Storm to gather signatures and I've just signed its "Back the National Commission Amendment" petition - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ
The former and current Home Secretaries, Cooper and Mahmood, had made the Law look like an overbearing Ass. These senior judges have restored balance and context. Small beer paint pot vandalism in a valid democratic cause should never have been conflated with terrorism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When I re-read Shabana Mahmood’s statement about this I can’t help but feel its wrong headedness in every sentence and that it is quite as hateful as Jim Ratcliffe’s openly racist views. How did we come to these kinds of views being aired in the mainstream of British Politics? Brexit corrosiveness.
Ready for a stonking mixing of metaphors: the Elephant in the Room is Trump; Mandelson was the Thief set to catch this Thief; Epstein & his sex ring the vile glue that binds the gangs – Italian, Russian & Jewish Mafias. With Starmer set against joining the EU, Trump was the only soiled card to play.
Sorcerer’s AI apprentice. Also revealing that the crook exploited the primary risk of AI – that it is programmed to offer the answer calculated most likely (greatest probability) to satisfy the query rather than be either true or logical, and in this case business logical. Piss poor net profit calc?
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is an immediate relief that can get her MacBook to macOS 15 Sequoia comfortably. Only cost a $10-15 usb stick with 32gb of space to load Sequoia.
We can hope, though it’s almost always that very desire for hope that kills us.
Unanswerable eloquence and any that might try to argue against his case will seem at best callous or, for the most part, obvious knaves.
Not half as loud as the moment the French Government sends Zuckerberg to prison for breaking his promise that if Meta purchased WhatsApp there would be no sharing of our data between Apps. Meta – yes pertinently renamed because skimming our meta data on WhatsApp and his other Apps is his Gold Rush.
Exceptional interview of the American Mezzo-Soprano Joyce Didinato by Tom Service. Her pain about the denial of all the US might stand for in its culture and humanity now playing out in real time. Whether to perform or join the demonstrators on the streets… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The UK government has agreed a Big Pharma deal with Donald Trump that limits controls on NHS drugs prices. The government is refusing to say how much this will cost or how it will be paid for. Wes Streeting needs to respond to freedom of information requests: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-wes-str...
Trump seems to be reconsidering his policy of public executions on the streets of Minneapolis as Republicans on the Hill rue the damage. When even Lionel Shriver, the literary scene's own Lucretia Borgia with enough bile to poison most of us reviles him… BBC R4 #WATO www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
And I am struck, as Farage loads his current vessel with a barrel of fascist leaning rotten apples of previous failed Tory administrations, that the madcap egotist in charge of the Conservative Party, may be finding that her ship is finally righting – or at least centring – without this deadweight.
Suella goes full fascist! The erratic right wing ex-Tory Home Secretary completes her journey from liberal immigration lawyer to the latest bat-shit loony recruit to Farage's one man, end of the pier show, business opportunity for him, known for now as the Reform Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Perhaps the moment to request statistics on how many members of ICE are members of the Proud Boys or other armed far right militias that Trump rallied in Washington in January 2021 to prevent the democratic transfer of power to Joe Biden.
So many reasons not to make a fawning gift to the Fascist and Putin ally in the White House. Recent events simply corroborate what many of us have been saying since Trump chose to stand in 2016. Will you add your name to the petition to cancel this state visit? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
On BBC Local News for London, "Thames Water said it might take days to repair the broken pipe and customers in the following postcodes may experience low pressure or no water:
W1C, W1F, W1G, W1H, W1K
W1S, W1T, W1U, W1W
W1, W2, W3, W4
W6, W8, W9, W10
W11, W12, and W14"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More details on the story and the grim outlook this evening for properties across West London postcodes as a major arterial pipe for London's water supply is damaged at the Holland Park node of London's mains pipe network. www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
Thames Water's problems clearly persisting and growing…
Update - 10:30 21/01/2026
W1H, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and W14
Update - 13:30 21/01/2026
W1C, W1F, W1G, W1H, W1K, W1S, W1T, W1U, W1W, W1, W2, W3, W4, W6, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, and W14
For this relief – so much thanks and tearful laughter even on a day when Thames Water’s ineptitude bombs this slice of West London – West End to the North Circular – back the Middle Ages with no running water. As per that 1970s Private Eye headline, like Water Co. bosses, “We’re holding our own”.
