When I was a teenager, the ticketing arrangement at the local cinema with that you bought a ticket at the box office and this gave you admittance to the cinema and any of the three screens available for as long as you wished. It was quite normal to stay and watch more than one film.
The Brexit project is in trouble. It is no longer popular, with large polling leads for rejoining. It isn’t working particularly well, with Britain’s economy certainly no better as a result of it and quite likely doing much worse. Investment is way down, which is alarming for the future. And most galling of all for
Dr Johnson said of Milton’s Paradise Lost – all admire it, but few wish it longer.
By complete coincidence, I happen to have been watching a lot of videos on the Cybertruck over the Christmas holiday. I have been thinking of getting an electric vehicle and have been looking at the options. In doing so I came across the controversy surrounding Tesla’s unusual and distinctive electric truck. It’s quite a story
The thing that finally prompted me actually to close my Twitter account was seeing something on Bluesky that said that Elon Musk had changed the terms and conditions to require that any legal disputes would be settled in a court in Texas. Musk is based in Texas, so this could be simply for administrative convenience.
I can’t remember how this bit of music got into my life. I’ve been listening to it every now and again since I had a CD player – and I think I may have bought it for no other reason than it was cheap and looked intriguing. But it has always carried me away to