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[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/will-speaking-chatbot-help-sort-consumer-complaints-computer/] A UK ‘consumer champion’ survey [sub’n req’d [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/will-speaking-chatbot-help-sort-consumer-complaints-computer/] ] uncovered the misjudged rise of the retail ‘chatbot’. Store chains mistakenly thinking such auto-tech is the new ‘customer service’. Yet buyer

Britain’s Brutalist buildings flagbearer, Owen Luder, died recently aged 93. Obituaries focused on the generally reviled over-powering concrete monstrosities the architect imposed on townscapes across the land. For all their ribbon-cutting day glamour of the future, they certainly did not age well. Consigning him to membership of The Rubble

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/midlifers-have-become-sitting-ducks-fraudsters/] As the piece these bullets above are from then caveats; “Not all of these tips work for all investment scams”. Before detailing ever more worrying developments by such despicable, cunning criminals. Let’s go beyond the typical, ‘if it sounds too good

The UK’s political calendar has long had a three-week window built in for the various annual party conferences. The arrival of the Autumn equinox heralding a shindig of speeches, fringe events and chance to thank the door-knocking grassroots faithful. Convention has it that the ruling party gets to go

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/doomsday-covid-models-badly-wrong/] I have blogged many times down the years about the scourge of following forecasts as fact. It has proven itself a disease which afflicts many a great Proposal with an unnecessarily yet fiendish insurmountable barrier. One main way of getting around the

Or hendiatris+1. One step beyond a tricolon. A rhetorical scheme [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon] with four elements. In the oratory of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he chose this as the way to ensure headlines followed his recent address to the Youth COP26 conference; > Coal Cars Cash

> The Alpha Nu Chi variant. Been with us for 27 years. — Hannes de Jager (@Toskaan) September 3, 2021 [https://twitter.com/Toskaan/status/1433808017586335747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Given the translating pronunciation, maybe an adaptation might be even better; Alpha Nu Cigma. What is surely unarguable, is the rampant corruption,

Maybe when it is one as adopted by deliverer, Hermes? If unfamiliar with the name, they’ve mopped up Amazon UK deliveries. Their own website strapline is ‘Cheap Parcel Delivery & Courier Service’. And are huge. I came across their CEO pictured proudly in front of his preferred slogan. As above.

> Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes The unappetising headline that chomped up feeds courtesy of, ahem, “experts at the University of Michigan”. Studying the impact of 6,000 foods (who knew?) they proposed a Health Nutritional Index. Mixing – wait for it – health and environmental hits. Many journalists salivating

Karol Sikora – waving goodbye above – has been a star across the airwaves. Particularly for all those desperate to hear ‘the science’ transparently debated by grownups. A welcome, measured riposte to the irrefutable, cut-and-dried, we-know-best hypotheses omnipresent from MSM. When zooming in from his above darkened room at home, he used