Prologue October 1998 – Moscow Smoke drifted in the air like the aftermath of an artillery bombardment, presided over by the ghoulish features of a nightmarish Politburo of the dead and the damned. The busts of Lenin and Felix Dzherzinsky surveyed the nightclub with grim disapproval from their perches high…
07:37 from: +44 7885 912124 ‘This is my new mobile. Pls save 2 ur phone’ 07:39 from: Tremaine ‘OK. u will send instructions from this number?’ Becki frowned at the incoming message on her new phone. The day was running away from her already. There was no time to…
‘THE CORAL IS dying,’ said Daniel to a small and disinterested family of floppy-hatted, baked-skinned tourists. The matriarch wore a translucent beach robe that shimmied around her wide hips. She took snaps of a coral tank on her iPhone then looked away, instantly gratified. The chill thrust of the air…
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…