Monthly Archives: November 2012

Livingston’s Christmas

Edinburgh’s Christmas fair ground and German market are being constructed in Princes Street East gardens. I couldn’t help but notice the incongruity of the statue of David Livingston standing with an outstretched Bible while the chair-o-plane is carefully set out … Continue reading

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The Accused and the Accuser

Anyone who consumes news output from the BBC in any format at all cannot fail to have noticed that all is not well at Auntie Beeb’s place.  The news website is screaming, “BBC needs ‘radical overhaul’”, while Eddie Mair is … Continue reading

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Author and Finisher

Following somewhat in the vein of my last post, there was an interesting discussion yesterday on BBC Radio4 between an author of romantic fiction and a computer programmer. The latter has developed software that can produce readable works of prose … Continue reading

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