April 2022

40 years ago, in a Whiteinch railway arch, we made a record… You can blame Liz Truss. I certainly do.  Her speech about the UK possibly sending warplanes to Ukraine threw a switch somewhere in my dodgily-wired head, and suddenly I was humming the elderly song that appears, with haphazard recent video, on YouTube if…

How can you provide invisible, practical help for those in need? “It’s 10 to eight; time now for Thought for the Day…” ALEXA! OFF! I detest the patronising, often glutinous, stale religious croissant that is Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Four’s otherwise unmissable Today Programme. As smartspeakers proliferate, there will eventually come a…