Government borrowing costs are back where they were in 2008 when Gordon F. Broon was in charge and J. Burnbum was a minister at the Treasury as the banks about to go bust after falling for the sub-prime mortgage scam.
Feet On The Ground
Friday, 4 September 2026
Ethnic invisibility
Analysis of the available data has found that the much ignored by the police grooming gangs have all sorts of organized crime connections. Drugs, protection rackets and everything. So why are they ignored?
More of it
A.I companies are buying up second-hand books, which are sliced up to create single sheets, which are scanned and then destroyed. The OCR’d text is then fed to A.I systems.
Yet another example of the theft of intellectual property being condoned by governments around the world.
Neglect of duty
The campaign continues to stop A.I companies from stealing the voice of performers without permission or payment. No surprise that the government is dragging its feet over preventing this theft and holding the A.I muggers to account.
A thrill too far
A theme park in California has been forced to close down its ultimate daredevil roller coaster because it may, maybe might have caused brain injuries and a couple of deaths.
A spot of accuracy
Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire has won a battle with Gooble to remove a pair of bogus hyphens from the town’s name online. But the railway station’s signs, which were the source of the hyphens, will retain them as Great Western Railways reckons there is too much burrocrazy involved in making the change.
Can-kicker
No danger of anything being done about the abuse of benefits in the Budget. Nothing is going to happen until next year at least. And probably not even then.