Something strange has happened over the past two weeks. I have been wearing my Apple Watch more often, almost 100% of the time, as I attempt (once again) to lose some weight and get back to pre-lockdown fitness levels. I… Read More ›
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Not everyone in the UK is horrible
A football fan from south Wales is raising money for a young German girl who was abused online to “show her not everyone in the UK is horrible”. The comments were made by England fans on social media when the… Read More ›
Here come the crazies
Boris Johnson is a weak man. He is a person who needs to be liked, who has aspired to greatness his whole life and who does not care how he gets there. His lack of morality is second only to… Read More ›
What’s the difference between Boris Johnson and Kim Jong-un?
The week started with the idea that UK schoolchildren should all sing a new song called ‘One Nation, One Britain’. It is creepy at best and at worst it is reminiscent of Germany and the Soviet Union many decades ago…. Read More ›
Nothing could prepare me for the online war
“To her subjects, Prince Philip was the longest-serving royal consort in British history — an often crotchety figure, offending people with gaffes about slitty eyes, even if secretly we rather enjoyed them.” The above, written by Christina Lamb, was all… Read More ›
The mixed up world of podcast subscriptions
Apple has just launched subscriptions in the Podcast app and at first I was sceptical. This scepticism comes from the thought that podcasts, just like the internet, should be free. I am not saying that this view is correct, but… Read More ›
Leica makes a phone iPhone owners will look twice at
The Leica Leitz Phone 1 is not an original phone as such because it is a rebadged Aquos R6. It is, however, an object that jumped out at me in an instant. Just look at the image above. The Leica… Read More ›
English Exceptionalism
Great fun tonight…fair play to England…they worked hard…defended deep and deserved to hang onto the draw in the end 👏#ENGvSCO. Andy Murray You would not believe that the above tweet from Andy Murray would offend some people, but it did…. Read More ›
Apple doesn’t always know what we want
Apple is famous for not using focus groups of following the trend for what users want and this has paid dividends. The ability to impress consumers can only come from offering something people either believed was not possible or that… Read More ›
You Do Not Live in Apple’s World
All it takes is some bedtime reading of Epic’s 365-page findings document to see just how aggressive Apple executives have gotten in carrying out Steve Jobs ’ 2010 vision to, as the finding document quotes him, “tie all our products… Read More ›
