A New Incremental Normal
The Graveyard Detective: Boer War Photographs There has been a growing assessment in the press that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not going as fast as had been expected […]
It’s Just Not Cricket
John Borland Thayer II For my readers who follow cricket, the recent controversy about the dismissal of an English batsman in an Ashes test will not be news. However, […]
Retreat and Die
All the King’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. 25th June, 2023 The last 24 hours in Russia have seen remarkable events with Prigozhin […]
Compelling Reading
Compelling Reading Reviewers’ Comments about the Case of the Emigrant Niece In the past month, the first of my Findo Gask and Erroll Rait series, the Case of the Emigrant […]
The Curse of Crypto
Bitcoin mining farm. Photo: Marko Ahtisaari The first transaction involving the use of a crypto currency to buy something physical was on May 22nd, 2010 when 10,000 bitcoins were exchanged for […]
Innovation at War
On 22nd April, 2021[1] I predicted that Russia would invade Ukraine and so break its UN charter commitments and the promise it made in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 […]
We Happy Few – Christmas Reflections
The Illustrated London News's illustration of the Christmas Truce: "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches" The sub-caption reads "Saxons and Anglo-Saxons fraternising on the [...]
The Thinking Machine is Here
Lee Se-dol in 2016. In 2016, AlphaGo, a machine that used large data sets to teach itself how to play Go defeated Lee Se-dol in a contest leading to this […]
The Seeds of Death?
Lt. George W. B. Cairns, 42nd Black WatchMy father served with the Black Watch during World War II and subsequently with the Metropolitan police in London. I remember as I […]
Downfall Back Story – Robert Bright, convict!
When I started my ‘Helots’ Tale’ research into the lives of Robert Bright and Mary Ann Goulding or Goulden or Golding, I had only the sketchiest of information about them. My research led me down paths I had not imagined and as the days went by I found the story almost writing itself as the […]
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