Today my inbox alerted me to 2500 cogently penned words on the holy grail of AGI, artificial general intelligence, as pursued by the West. Having posted twice on AI in January, using the example of DeepSeek to contrast the approaches … Read More »
Five years ago I watched the Richie Mehta drama, Delhi Crime, and this week binged on it again at Netflix, devouring the dozen episodes of series 1 (with series 2 just as good) three or four at a time. I’ve … Read More »
Israeli supporters in London, October 11 2025 The government of Israeli-funded Sir Keir Starmer criminalises Britons holding pieces of paper in support of a non violent direct action group, even as it flouts international law by actively aiding a genocide. … Read More »
Clickbait trivia, fake news and faux outrage: every day until we demand truth: In The Country of the Blind, HG Wells showed that the proverbial one-eyed man, far from being crowned king, is likely to be deemed insane. Westerners who … Read More »
Having overnighted in Bedford on that beautifully tree lined boulevard by the Great Ouse, I’m in Muswell Hill on Saturday just after eight for breakfast, coffee, then 134 to Mornington Crescent. From there it’s a stroll past Euston then down … Read More »
London, July 2025 When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing”. When Israelis get one they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people … Read More »
Yesterday, two years after Israel launched its pre-announced genocide … … five UK factories were targeted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign as making components for the F-35s used by Israel in its mass murderous ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I’d planned to … Read More »
Before steel city scribblings was even a gleam in my eye, I’d mused for years on the dialectic played out by power and morality. But in those incubational days between the criminality of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that of Libya … Read More »
On Wednesday I walked Big Moor with an old friend. No one was getting wed but a vastness of myrtle green and bracken brown spread before us, flecked with heather still purple under skies of rich brooding intensity, the air … Read More »
The Guardian, October 2 2025 Google Maps tells me Heaton Park Shul at Crumpsall, on the northern edge of Manchester, is a sixty-five minute drive from steel city house. One that would take me, via the Snake Pass, along mile … Read More »