ATB1776, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons AI is spread around like so much fertiliser across every media channel and yet nobody even asks what it is. I’m not going to tell you either and if you’re wondering why, well here goes. Whatever it meant when IBM began on Watson…

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Neoliberal are awash with money they never imagined possible. After the banks collapsed in 2007 the wrong doers were rewarded with unimaginable volumes of free cash to invest. As industry collapsed and the world was transferred to zero hours and…

We cannot solve climate change by carbon mitigation alone and if this is our only focus, then humanity is finished. We think of climate change being about carbon dioxide and the burning of fossil fuels, and that if we achieve net zero for carbon then all our problems are solved…

Yet another friend bit the dust last week; her bank was empty, someone had taken all her money, the bank don’t care, the police don’t care and she’s in despair. I never thought to warn her. Indeed, the same could have happened to me because, despite knowing better, I didn’t…

Ukraine is in a Unique position but ill equipped to take care of itself. Even less knowledgeable about politics or economics than older European nations and stuck between two despotic super powers who show little compunction about using them as a battleground or worse, the future looks grim. The wrong move…

For me there’s no nicer way to start a Sunday or any day for that matter, than a long slow grind of expresso, but I’m sure you’ll agree, it’s always important just who is doing it and why. Right now you are being screwed, but the intentions are far from…

It’s not just a quirky thing that we all suffer with. The best brains of the Kremlin inventing embedded software to enslave us would be justifiably proud. What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.” — Warren Buffett…

The story of Ukraine, China, The US and Russia is trickier than we are being told by our purveyors of truth, or indeed our elected representatives. [i]China, Poland and Russia top the list of Ukraine’s partners for the first six months of 2021 China and Ukraine China remains Ukraine’s largest trade partner according…

It was interesting to see a Guardian warrior spill his thoughts on the internet about unpaid individuals discussing stuff and testing ideas on the Internet. The title: Internet Warrior warns you up front that this is not going to be a balanced critique. Nobody is surprised to learn that a…