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[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8831633/PM-plunges-millions-deeper-lockdown-Three-Tier-plan.html] Daily Mail fail – make sure you align your boxes in neat columns… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Much consternation across the rabid English media. Despite averting a second national lockdown – those peshky kidsh – the politicians (specifically, the one holding the purse strings) overruled the consequence-free

Apple’s imminent latest iphone update (’12’), brings to mind the storied history of the device. Remember the ‘iphone ten’ launch facial unlock demo FAIL? Or recall more the audience gasps at the smartphone era emergence? Their Project Purple was famously the name of their designers’ efforts to create the

Everyday economist Tim Harford began a new podcast series; Cautionary Tales [https://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/]. To check it out, I chose the second episode. It’s subtext being why we fall for cons [https://timharford.com/2019/12/why-we-fall-for-cons/]. Throughout, the fascinating yarn of a 1906 Berlin robber dressing

The NHS. Britain’s National Health Service. A sacred cow in the country. The pride being that it is available to prince or pauper, from cradle to grave, and is “free”. Yet none of this spin holds true. Genuflection at the altar of widespread mediocrity is mind boggling. Not only

An old saying. Roughly asking, ‘does the reward justify the effort?’ Often delivered in the negative. Surmising that ‘the juice ain’t worth the squeeze’. Of seemingly unknown origin, the phrase feels borne of fruit-based wisdom. With all manner of pioneer farming, other’s spouse coveting and investment deployment down