If you drive a plug-in hybrid car (PHEV), it looks like you’ll have the worst deal under the new car tax plan. Clearly BEVs are the best choice, but if you can’t use a BEV, your best bet looks to be a self-charging hybrid (HEV) bit.ly/4rjhpEG
Concentrating politically right-wing mainstream print media in the UK under single ownership. Will Ofcom and the government approve it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…
Ok, I succumbed to the Black Friday temptation - I bought a Kindle Colorsoft 2025 edition on a great Amazon offer, enhanced by trading in my current Kindle Paperwhite. I use my Kindle every day; now I’ll be able to find content in my library by looking at the book covers in colour!
“In reality, the FCC will likely come up empty. If the programme wasn’t broadcast in America, that’s fatal to Trump’s claim and to the FCC investigation.” There’s nothing else about the Panorama programme that’s not been disclosed, right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…
LinkedIn really is a place for great engagement when you share something there that captures imaginations. The blog post I wrote about em dashes and shared on LinkedIn has some terrific comments - and over 20,000 views. Wow! In just three days bit.ly/4o49Fn2
We’re just past mid-November. Christmas Day is still five weeks away. Yet all I hear on the radio is Christmas songs. Some neighbours have already put up their decorations. Supermarkets and department stores are full-on with Christmas. Let’s hear it again from Noddy:
Cloudflare error trying to load ChatGPT. Could it be connected with the reported “massive Cloudflare outage”? www.itpro.com/infrastru…
We’re intermingling two very different dramas: alternating between the first season of Poirot from 1989 on ITVX, and The Beast In Me that premiered on Netflix last week. Chalk and cheese but each excellent TV
This is crazy. I have #Chrome running on #Windows11 with four tabs open on a handful of news and social websites - and Chrome is consuming just over 5 gigs of memory according to the Task Manager. Wtf?
“Last week, an environmental disaster took place on Camber Sands beach, on what could turn out to be an unprecedented scale…” www.theguardian.com/environme…
Er… Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak? youtu.be/_lwf_MA4M…
The revelations in the 20,000 pages of Epstein info released in the US yesterday are astonishing. Politico has done a good job with what they call “the 9 most shocking,” unsurprisingly all US-relevant. UK stuff will emerge sooner or later bit.ly/3WPxAvA
This letter in @thetimes today is the most credible comment about the latest #BBC crisis from anyone I’ve seen so far.
“Quite simply, we’re creating AIs that are always working in service of the human” – Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/0…
Really not sure what to make of “ghost posts” on Threads - posts that disappear after 24 hours. Either a super-convenient way to share casual, ephemeral chat with friends, or an invitation to spam everybody with unfiltered ephemeral chat, aka spam. How do you see it? bit.ly/4hvPVXO
We watched “The House of Dynamite on Netflix. A gripping tale with a dystopian taste although I thought it was a credible story of what might be. A peculiar ending but that didn’t take away from the storytelling. Terrific cast, great production. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ho…
King Charles needs to move rapidly on this now to demonstrate his ability to resolve this crisis. Stripping his brother of all his privileges would be the right move. Then send him into exile. bit.ly/3Jnk9zK
Well, that didn’t last long… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…