Whenever there is any step change in technology, out have always come the same simple-minded predictions. That led people to go smashing up textile machines in the 19th century; in the 20th, domestic… (View Post)

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Breaking: one of the island’s newly elected Reform councillors, who won one of the three by-elections back in May, has today resigned his seat, having missed most of the meetings he was due to attend… (View Post)

While in Finland I saw part of a TV programme about Karelia, which was the price Finland had to pay in WWII, handing it to Russia to end the Winter War. Absolutely nothing has done with it since, and… (View Post)

The way that was done was appalling, and typical of Johnson’s style of government, if you can call it that; making the announcement and taking the publicity, but leaving the Boroughs to pick up was a… (View Post)