Over the time I have held a driving licence I have owned many, many cars – from my first (a long time ago) at the age of 17, a 1961...

Progress is unstoppable and relentless. I started work before hand held calculators existed, in a time when arithmetic; addition,...

Digitalization of services is becoming the mantra of advancement – just about everything we use in daily life is now digital and...

Vacuuming your home can be either an unavoidable necessity or a form of therapy. The difference is often the tool you use. A good vacuum...

What is “Woke”? As its origin is the USA lets see what a US dictionary says: Merriam-Webster: " chiefly US slang : aware of and actively...

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” - So said the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett. An observation and truism that fits many...

When published in 1946 it was as a novel. A work giving the reader a fiction to consider. A dystopian warning of what would have been had...

The UK has a big problem to face down. Is it all down to Liz Truss? euronews.com provides a helpful time line to the current situation in...

The boiling frog is an apologue describing how to boil a live frog. The premise is that if a frog is put into water that is already...

As a spectator sport the disintegration of the Conservative Parliamentary Party over recent months has been pure popcorn entertainment....

A rant brought on by the wall to wall stupidity and fountain of platitudinous story telling that spills from our TV and radio sets as...

It is estimated that over 50,000 ships lie wrecked off the Yorkshire Coast; victims of storm, tide, bad seamanship and war. In the last...

I have found a new game anyone can play – all you need is a Smart Phone with the what3words app installed, a bit of imagination for word...

So, the Turkeys have voted and Boris has succumb. Frankly the current situation is beyond the scripting of both “The thick of It” and...

Over 4 days in September In 1666 the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London between the 2nd and 6th of that month some...

112 days and counting. Having against all odds and expectations forced Russia to abandon its efforts to take Kiev, repulsed the assault...

Remember Hal? The malevolent computer in 2001:A Space Odyssey way back in 1968. In 1968 computing was in its infancy and the Hal 9000 was...

The bay in front of my table is especially rich in seabirds. Between March and October the cliffs that extend for some 6 miles to form...

Russia has announced a new super weapon, “Sarmat”, or more correctly the RS-28; the largest ICBM any country has built – a 3 stage...

He is not everyone’s idea of perfection; indeed, he is not mine. He has more than his fair share of political and media detractors; but...