How Many Warnings do you need?
For me the biggest news (of the week, if not the century!) was that on Monday the BBC at last […]
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Nick Hollinghurst
Working for social democracy and a greener world through the Liberal Democrats
Eisenhower’s role in Managing the Post-Surrender Transition in Germany was just as important as his Leadership on the Battlefield.
In 1945 there was a plan.
After the German forces surrendered there was a 4-party occupation (though not appropriate in Iran, […]
PETER HEGSMITH AND HIS ROBOT AGENTS ARE WATCHING YOU – OR WILL BE SOON!
Yesterday I wrote, “Pressure is building for extra power stations to help out AI techbros, and with the cost put […]
Read more →AI (2) The very many early days of AI.
AI has already had a long and spasmodic history of development so far.
Inspired by Alan Turing’s speculative essay of 1950, […]
AI (1) SOME INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS.
(based on the very useful “Artificial Intelligence for Dummies” 3rd edition, 2025, John Wiley & Sons. Inc)
AI, aka “Artificial Intelligence, […]
‘More Law’ is not the answer to Labour’s Free Expression and Free Speech Problem.
Several months ago, the Labour Government, following damage to Air Force planes by members of a group whose stated aim […]
Read more →DIRTY BUSINESS, DIRTY OIL, DIRTY TANKERS.
To finance its war against Ukraine by selling oil, Russia is using old tankers, often without valid registration or transponders […]
Read more →DISTURBING SURVEY OF US OPINION REVEALS THE FRAGILITY OF AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY.
Although billed as showing that “a vast majority of Americans express support for democracy” and that “88 % of respondents […]
Read more →FAIR AND SQUARE FOR INVESTMENT AND REWARD
When companies invest in UK they do so in the hope of profitable business – and UK welcomes this as […]
Read more →Exascale Computing Development Confirmed for Edinburgh
Few now remember Black Arrow, UK’s 1970 satellite launcher. This developed out of the successful earlier Blue Streak rocket program. […]
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