‘THE CORAL IS dying,’ said Daniel to a small and disinterested family of floppy-hatted, baked-skinned tourists. The matriarch’s translucent beach robe shimmied around her wide hips. She took snaps of a coral tank on her iPhone then glanced at her screen, instantly gratified. The chill thrust of the air conditioning…
What precisely is a ‘Think Tank’ and should we be selling them to Ukraine? Certainly, from what I’ve seen they’re a destructive force. They invariably seem to qualify for charitable status, without performing any identifiable charitable works. Indeed they mostly perform no visible function at all, although they often share…
It’s difficult to find an independent voice on the emotive subject of the UK government’s policy on ‘stopping the boats’ so I thought I’d turn to Artificial Intelligence to see if it could come up with an intelligent solution. The question I put to ChatGPT was: ‘How can I stop…
I went to Sunday school as a child steeped in Enid Blyton and Alfred Hitchcock, and found the language of the Bible musty and impenetrable, and the narrative less convincing than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Sunday School was more about giving my parents a couple of hours…
‘Is it far?’ ‘Who knows? I wasn’t even sure this road existed. No signs. Sometimes there are roads on maps that were planned but never built. Other times there are roads like this that aren’t on any maps. At least the road’s here. But Sorsk Gorod? That’s not on…