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Ubiquitous car chases….

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“One Battle After Another” – how to tease people into reluctant laughter at a very real ongoing situation. Directed, written and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, this story is adapted from the novel “Vineland” by Thomas Pynchon. Stars and actors include Leo Di Caprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti and Benicio del Toro. The story is inspired by true events and real-life groups such as TheWeathermen – a far left militant organization active from 1969 to the mid 70s who wanted to eradicate racism and imperialism in the USA. Other reviews do remark on the left wing and socialistic … Continue reading Ubiquitous car chases….

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Negotiating the network of power and poverty

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Award winning Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s new novel, Eye of the Monkey, is a delicate tale of human in crisis, a dark humor animate, set in an unnamed dystopian country amid a devastating civil war that led to the formation of the United Regency, an autocry . The ravages of war are sweeping, and the populace has been divided into segregated zones, where the well-off are under mass surveillance and the poor are phantom presences, confined and ghettoize. .  In 1970 an experiment which resulted in the first successful simian head transplant. “The monkey seemed to sense its surroundings, its gaze … Continue reading Negotiating the network of power and poverty

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London Packaging Week

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London Packaging Week  15 & 16 October 2025, Halls S2 & S3, Excel, London E16 1XL. London Packaging Week connects world’s top luxury, beauty, drinks and FMCG groups with the packaging suppliers, materials and innovative inspiration that will define the future of their brands. Explore the @museumofbrands and see the transformation of iconic packaging history of brands over the years. From @lyonscoffee, Typhoo Tea, Ovaltine, Bournvita, Weetabix, Nesquik, Scott’s Oats, Heinz, Brook Bond, Barber’s Tea, Sailor Boy Custard, Batchelor Soup, Ready Brek, Persil, Robinsons,to Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup, evolution of design, branding and innovation record  at this museum. Continue reading London Packaging Week

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“Never limit yourself. Step out of your comfort zone – wonders will happen” Apathy

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Dr Arathy Ram, a scientist with middle-class upbringing, from Kollam village in Kerala, south India, won a £26k , United Kingdom Research and innovation (UKRI) fellowship in UK. Her new 4-year project will use simple body movements to – heal broken bones, power medical implant like pacemakers, eliminate the need for batteries, wires or drugs.  Dr Arathy Ram had already won the Marie Curie Fellowship worth £27k and worked with ISRO. Now she is pioneering a new field- piezoelectroceutics- blending physics and medicine.  Dr Arathy Ram said “Never limit yourself. Step out of your comfort zone – wonders will happen”. Two … Continue reading “Never limit yourself. Step out of your comfort zone – wonders will happen” Apathy

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Compact maintenance free energy power source: Batteries lasting over 5,700 years

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Scientists at the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have developed world’s first nuclear-powered diamond battery which offers a safe, sustainable way to provide continuous microwatt levels of power, that could change the future of energy storage forever. Diamond battery is aimed at applications where a low discharge rate over a long period of time is required, such as space exploration, medical devices, seabed communication. This carbon-14 battery, powered by radioactive decay, can generate electricity for up to 5, 700 years. By utilizing nuclear waste, it offers an eco-friendly solution to energy generation, transforming hazardous by-products … Continue reading Compact maintenance free energy power source: Batteries lasting over 5,700 years

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How we end up saying things that relate to an idea rather than experience

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An unnamed 40-year-old, Protagonist writer of Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, who grew up in the South West of England before moving to Ireland, struggle to explain to her lover why she can’t explain how she feels: “ Somethings are resistant to words maybe, and when you start trying to apply them you end up with something else, another thing a theory, I suppose” Claire-Louise Bennett clarify – how easily language falls into pre-formulated phrases that fail to capture our intended meaning- how we “end up saying things that relate to an idea, rather than to the experience itself”. The protagonist’s unorthodox … Continue reading How we end up saying things that relate to an idea rather than experience

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Don’t give the customer what they want, give them what they don’t know they want yet

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Gene Pressman’s memoir of his time working for the legendary New York Department store Barneys founded by his grandfather, comes when the authors helps open its vast new outpost on Madison Avenue in 1993. The luxury store, complete with mosaic floors, custom-made furniture, saltwater fish tanks, a restaurant and floors of beauty, jewellery and clothes. Pressman writes “ The store is amazing. It’s hard to be humble knowing stores just didn’t look like this – not anymore”. Barney’s had, he says, “gone back to the past to the grand  department stores just didn’t look like this – not anymore. Barney’s had … Continue reading Don’t give the customer what they want, give them what they don’t know they want yet

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Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls. The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come. Former political adviserGiuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider’s journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tryants, strongmen and AI billionaires – geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders whop desperately try to appease them. In the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute … Continue reading Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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Fight for a liveable planet for us, our children and future generations

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Scientists Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist and dean of National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College in Texas and Michael Mann, climatologist and professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, may have gone over the top in their assessment of the threat. They claim “Science is indeed under siege, and that’s not good for any of us. It’s not too late to do something: It’s time to get things done”. Both endured frequent personal attacks and threats to themselves and their families, on social media and in person at lectures and even at home. Climate change deniers are encouraging … Continue reading Fight for a liveable planet for us, our children and future generations

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History repeats itself: The tale of power, psychology and seductive illusion

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In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the author of Too Big to Fall -the definitive history of the 2008, banking crisis, follows a similar people-centred recipe to retell a much older tale of financial hubris and nemesis: the great crash that began in 1929 in the US but which when stretched out in waves of repeated panic for several years and across many countries. Sorkin reveals the tale of its ugly aftermath, as panic moved from Wall Street to Main Street with the Great Depression of the 1930s and the sweeping regulatory response to these cascading crises. In 1929, the world … Continue reading History repeats itself: The tale of power, psychology and seductive illusion