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Count Binface's Manifesto
For many years, local elections in England have been brightened by the appearance of a bizarre figure dressed in a surreal costume topped by a space age dustbin.Some have been angered by what they see as making a mockery of the sac...
How to create a name for a new product
Coming up with a new idea for a product is one of those examples of a search for everyday creativity. The challenge crops up in a wide range of contexts and the approach I’m going to describe is one of various ways of carrying out a successful ...
Agatha Christie: Another unsolved mystery
As regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars.Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed mor...
The Assassination of Keir Starmer, 22 June 2026
Keir Starmer’s historic final hours as prime minister.Shortly after 9 am, it was clear the moment was imminent, when he and his wife Victoria appeared in front of No 10 Downing Street. It is often a symbolic changing of the p...
Going for a song: My Eureka moment
Over the course of many years, I had probably over quoted the story about Archimedes and his moment of discovery which has become known as the Eureka phenomenon.As it gets taught in universities around the world, Archimedes discovered hi...
Question Time. A gruesome disappointment
I’m still getting my head around what I witnessed watching Question Time, yesterday evening. I was attracted to the idea of the programme with the leading candidates in the Makerfield by-election. Some years ago, I enjoyed Question ...
Can you copywrite a sound?
The question of copyright has become a hot issue with the rise of creative products assisted by artificial intelligence systems.I started thinking about this recently with a specific case example. It cropped up the work directed by Jonat...
Where is Sasha? Dark Russian Humour
This example of dark Russian humour was published on X translated from a Portuguese source. The story is about the interrogation of President Putin in a question and answer session at a Russian school. The first question is from ...
How to spot the Traitor
How to spot a traitorThis audio Post was triggered by the timing of my return from a visit to my tennis club every Saturday morning.I still enjoy listening to radio five for the sports programs. On Saturdays, there is a problem ca...
My Love/Hate Affair with Amazon Continues ...
I use Amazon a lot. But my appreciation of Amazon’s outstanding delivery service goes along with a considerable concern I have about the impact of its business practices at a local and a global level. I asked Dr Google ‘Why is Amazo...
Celtic win breaks Hearts
Celtic win breaks HeartsHearts football club lost the title in a race they had been leading through throughout most of the season too many times champions Celtic. They lost in a devastating fashion at the last minute.Celtic have b...
Vote to keep the weirdos out
Yesterday I was left feeling depressed at what I saw as hideous bias in the coverage of the upcoming local elections. Very late, I knew what I wanted to happen and feared it was probably too late How to warn people about votin...
Three poets and a music-maker: Creating a website
It is now nearly a year since I became involved in a music-making project. The music is generated by an AI system by one member of a small team.This may become a more common approach to generating music which also has implications fo...
Life is Sadness, life's a Bitch
Life is sadness, life’s a bitchI thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon.Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event....
Natural talent and its weaknesses
I came across a splendid analysis of the weakness of relying on natural talent, in a piece published in the Quora website. The author publishes under the title Halftime Legend.It makes sense, and may even contribute to the deb...
Brexit Rap: Where do new ideas come from?
Where do new ideas come from? To compensate for my abysmal failure in steps per day, (according to my distance walked App) I resort to the treadmill at my local gym. Recently, the experience was weird. My pounding ...
The Houdini tactic: An invaluable rescue weapon for the club player
Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards I cannot claim to have invented the Houdini tactic in chess. However, I hinted at it in one of my least successful books, The Double Houdini. As will become obvious, the tactic does...
The Dark Side of the Augusta Masters Golf Championship
Every year, the masters golf championship at Augusta, Georgia gets worldwide television coverage. The traditions are well-known, including ritual acceptance by the winner of the iconic green jacket, handed over by last year‘s winner. <...
A late-night Trump rant against his enemies
Donald Trump, in the midst of saving the world, finds time to excoriate his multiple enemies in a classic late-night rant on Truth Social...
Lewis Goodall: Where did it all go wrong?
Listeners to this podcast will be aware that I have borrowed its title from a recent Channel 4 documentary entitled Kier Starmer: where did it all go wrong. The broadcast triggered off a storm of criticism of its presenter Lew...
Grandfather's Clock, by Henry C. Work
A rendition of poem based on a favourite in the days of radio broadcasting by the BBC. With some help from tennis partners this morning (Lindsay, Neil, and Gordon) we reassembled what we believe to be the first lines of the poem, and quickly tr...