Author Archives
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Ed Sheeran (good bloke, very rich)
The thought of a near 50 minute video about watches may not fill you with joy, but the end result is that Ed Sheeran is just such a nice guy and someone who seems to manage to remain humble despite… Read More ›
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Where is Peng Shuai?
Tennis great Martina Navratilova has condemned as “pathetic” the Australian Open’s decision to stop fans wearing ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ T-shirts, accusing Tennis Australia of “capitulating” to China. Late last week spectators at Melbourne Park were asked to remove their… Read More ›
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Last Night In Soho
I watched Last Night In Soho a few days back and was somewhat perplexed by what I saw. It initially felt contrived and unoriginal, but I thought about the film and, strangely for me, watched it again the next day…. Read More ›
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Heaven Can Wait
The epic was developed from composer Jim Steinman’s rock musical called Neverland (based on Peter Pan) and produced by Todd Rundgren. In 1972 Steinman had Bette Midler sing the 1972 demo for “Heaven Can Wait,” but it found a home… Read More ›
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What happens now to the clinically vulnerable?
Starting from a far higher level of risk, those with suppressed immune systems also get less protection from vaccines and are accounting for an increasing proportion of ICU admissions and deaths. Yet many feel like a “forgotten minority”, according to… Read More ›
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Buy your books from Waterstones, not WH Smith
“When the last Richard Osman came out, Penguin bought the number one spot on all WH Smith in-store bestseller charts so it had to be displayed as the bestseller in every single store, whether it actually was or not,” Barry… Read More ›
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100 seconds to midnight
Every January, the scientists assess how close the world is to ending, in their view, and use knowledge of how things have changed to move the clock either closer or farther away from midnight. To quote Prince’s prescient 1999 lyrics,… Read More ›
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Famous for cajoling killers into confessing to their crimes
The woman was Bobbie Sue Hill. Nearly a decade before this conversation, kids had stumbled upon her body in a creek bed under a bridge, less than a mile from Driskill’s home. Investigators pieced together that she was a 29-year-old… Read More ›
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The BBC cannot see a queue, a very big queue
This is becoming a very big problem, one that was easily seen way before Brexit changes came into effect. And it seems that most of the British media cannot see it, or to be more accurate are (being told?) choosing… Read More ›
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Marking Apple messages as unread
But the most popular messaging app on iOS, Messages, has never implemented “Mark as Unread” even though users have been clamoring for it for years and it’s been rumored that they tested it. What’s even wilder is that iMessage doesn’t… Read More ›
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