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Facing the ghosts of his childhood

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Michael Donor’s Grow Where They Fall,  where the protagonist considers buying a Robert Mapplethrope print, the photograph of a nude Black man, but the sitter’s pose- pulling his knees up in front of his face – is troubling, “ Was a weeping or was this a moment of gentle repose? Wonders Kwame. “Was this clutching and supporting of himself the model demonstrating he needed no one else?   In 2017, Kwame is teaching English at a South London secondary school. His pupils consider him one of the “safe’ ones, and he lives with his university friend Edwin, a generous, willowy, Period Drama … Continue reading Facing the ghosts of his childhood

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Decline of ethical standards

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Boris Johnson’s premiership was brought down by three Ps” – Paterson, Partygate, and Pincher  whammy scandals involving lobbying by a former minister, Downing Street carousing during Covid lockdowns and a government whip living up or down to his name.  Veteran Kings Counsel, John Bowers, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford reveals in Downward Spiral, even the most unwilling Brit back to those febrile weeks towards  the end of Johnson’s administration, when he seemed to be puling apart, the conventions of good behaviour that keep the air in Downing Street smelling healthy.  The scandals eroded trust in the British government, from questionable … Continue reading Decline of ethical standards

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The Resident: Front of House team really do go above and beyond to help

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Trip Advisor, the world’s largest travel guidance platform have been helping people navigate the  best hotel  from Scotland to Cornwall and location, location, is not necessarily the mantra for the best Hotel as a dull London Hotel has been voted the “best Hotel in Britain” without a restaurant, gym, or spa. Hotel preference is a matter of personal taste if Resident, Covent Garden, is the UK’s Best Hotel, Toulson Court in Scarborough is the UK’s best B&B, Brazil’s French-inspired Hotel Collins de France in Gramdao the best hotel in the world according to winners of Trip Advisor’s Annual Traveller’s Choice. … Continue reading The Resident: Front of House team really do go above and beyond to help

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I don’t think you know what’s coming – ecstatic misery

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A story of live and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends Thomas Hart, a journalist on the Essex Chronicle, and Grace Macauley (17),  small and plump, with skin that went brown by the end of Maym and who is “by nature a thief if she found a thing to be beautiful , but not hers”. worshipers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small fictional Essex town of Aldleigh.  Thomas who is 50 and writes a column for the newspaper on scientific and astronomical topics, which brings him into connection … Continue reading I don’t think you know what’s coming – ecstatic misery

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On the Brink of fear & disaster

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Philip Notman, an acclaimed medieval history professor whose fondness for Emerson’s scariest quote “ I  am glad to be on the brink of fear”, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal life. Seeking answers, he flies to Cadiz to see Inés, a Spanish academic, with whom he shared a connection at the conference, but his journey doesn’t end there. A chance encounter with a wealthy, elderly couple sends him to a house on … Continue reading On the Brink of fear & disaster

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Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Apple, the $2.7tn tech company, has poached dozens of AI expert staff from Google  to set up a secretive European laboratory, “Vision Lab”,  in Zurich for developing AI models for AI smartphones. Apple even acquired two local AI start-ups – Virtual Reality group FaceShift and image recognition company Fashwell, to power products such as Open AI’s ChatGPT chatpot. According to insiders Apple is clearly focused on deploying generative AI on its mobile devices, a breakthrough that would allow AI chatbots and apps to run on the Apple phone’s own operating system and hardware rather than powered by cloud services in data centres. … Continue reading Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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£52bn annual sales for the Art World! Art World’s estimated total annual sales of over £52billion ( $65  billion) like, Venice’s rich displays art, old, new, and compete with parties in private palazzi and billionaires’ boats. Yet art traders are struggling to convert the next generation of enthusiasts into committed buyers. Prices, ownership, and conditions that reveal the limits of a market with no overarching oversight, which still relay on handshakes, and the hidden code of conduct. In the last year art advisor Lisa Schiff whose clients include Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme amid a legal claim … Continue reading Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Did you know that Artificial intelligence alarmists warn that machine learning will end up destroying humanity – or make humans redundant but imagine what if AI tools simply do a bad job.  Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired, and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents, and astonishing real-world practices, reporter and professor at New York University, Hilke Schellmann reveals, after five years of investigating, exposes the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, the tools that are widely used by employers in hiring, firing, and … Continue reading Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Short Story: An Innocent Woman

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AN INNOCENT WOMAN – A Short Story by Penny Nair PriceWould anyone ever discover his deep secret? It seemed he had committed the perfect crime and he had got away with it – his most hated enemy was now ten feet under – and all because she was a cheating swine. He walked away from her grave, reminiscing deeply about their married life together, and as he did so, the sun started to shine and the clouds cleared. “Til death do us part” Ha! That was the joke. He remembered how she had begged with him for a ring he … Continue reading Short Story: An Innocent Woman

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Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy

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Amazing riveting revelations of Amazon’s endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal’s Amazon correspondent, whose reporting highlighted on allegations of Amazon’s anti-competitive behaviour, in her latest book “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, reveal how Amazon sells its own branded goods by accessing sensitive commercial data on successful third-party sellers, only then to launch its own Amazon-branded competing goods immediately, despite a senior Amazon executive denying under oath to Congress that it would misuse … Continue reading Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy