I reviewed the quartz PRX back in 2021 and rather liked it. Like so many other watches it did not last long for me and was sold on, but the automatic version was then released which added some time keeping… Read More ›
Articles
The joy of being in the moment
If 2025 has had any kind of defining cultural theme, it perhaps boils down to people’s increasing sense that a life completely beholden to screens is no life at all. To this, add two connected trends: a drop in millions… Read More ›
2025
It’s been a funny year. Feels like it has passed by in a blur while at the same time feeling like it has taken 3 years to move from 2024 to the cusp of 2026. McGST has done surprisingly well… Read More ›
A happy ending…
On 18th May this year we picked up Violet (front) and Maggie (back) from a foster home that was looking after them for Many Tears Rescue. They had been in an Irish puppy farm for 2 and 3 years respectively… Read More ›
Box of frogs…
London is falling — and Britain cannot ignore the warning signs any longer. From failing infrastructure and unaffordable housing to political censorship and broken institutions, our capital is in crisis. The Liz Truss Show investigates what’s gone wrong, who is… Read More ›
X: he shot her in the head and then he killed himself
A friend sent me a clip of a British politician saying something funny and stupid last week which was a link on X. I watched the clip, lightly chortled to myself and then it jumped to the next video. Before… Read More ›
27 years later…
21 years ago I said to my son Tom, who was 4 years old at the time, that I would take him to see the World Cup when Scotland next qualified. I really did not expect him to be 25… Read More ›
Blogging…
Since then, popular blogs have been commercialized; added comment sections and video; migrated to social media platforms; and been subsumed by large media companies. The growth of social media in particular has wiped out a particular kind of blogging that… Read More ›
Enshittification
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business… Read More ›
Henry is a good boy
The above was cross-posted on Reddit and it makes perfect sense. We have had a Henry for many years and it works perfectly, always has and easily beats the performance of Dysons we have tried. Perhaps the best response to… Read More ›
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