This is a conundrum that could well define what the British press are going to report in the future and how: A well known television presenter was accused by Britain’s leading tabloid newspaper of having paid a rather substantial amount of money to a young person for sexually explicit photos. The story was obviously immediately […]
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AI is all the rage – what does AI make of AI?
Aritificial intelligence or AI is all the rage these days, so I decided to have a bit of a ‘conversation’ with AI about, well, itself really…. Can you help me write my blog? Of course! I’d be happy to help you with your blog. What’s your blog about, and what kind of help are you […]
A question of national identity?
We are born British, American, Swiss, or whatever, and as a result we hold the passport of our country of origin. And we don’t get to choose which passport that is. Well, most of the time. Some of us have been lucky enough, mostly through marriage or because we haven been living in a foreign […]
Wasting time
I am sure you know the feeling: you have been toiling away all day long, yet, come nighttime you feel there aren‘t enough hours in a day to get everything done. And it’s in particular the household chores like cooking and cleaning that seem to consume a disproportionate part of our lives. A recent study […]
Unhealthy Gaming
Christmas and birthdays are always the perfect time to offer the latest computer game (or games!!) to your offspring – and they certainly cost you less than the $520 million Epic Games, the creator of the popular online video game ‘Fortnite’ has to pay to the American Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle allegations that […]
Clean air – 70 years on from the Great Smog of London
5 December 2022 marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Smog of London when a period of unusually cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal-fired heating—to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 […]
Happy New Year
I wish all my readers a happy 2023, full of good health, happiness and success!
Blowing the whistle on whistle blowing?
Wouldn’t it be great to receive a $114 million payout? One lucky chap in the US actually in October 2021 was awarded exactly this amount by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and another agency for blowing the whistle on some shady business business practices by his financial markets employer. As a matter of fact, […]
How not to manage staff – Lessons from Elon Musk
Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that they must commit to working “long hours at high intensity” or else leave the company, according to reports. And that is after Mr. Musk already sacked half of Twitter’s employees – only to hire some of them a couple of days later after finding out that some of […]
More retail woes
During 2020 I had written several blogs on the sorry state of the British high street. The main problem then was the lockdowns, but inflation was low, people got paid, be that their salary and wages or under the government’s furlough scheme. Fast forward two years and the situation is very different: inflation in the […]
The grumpy older man 