TikTok, the Chinese owned app, which has amassed over 1billion monthly users in three years, had build teams to moderate its streams of viral videos amid concerns that users are being expose to the kind of toxic content that has plagued YouTube and Facebook. TikTok will outsource decisions on what videos are acceptable to teams…
Dennis Mullenburg CEO of Boeing has been replaced after he repeatedly failed to gain control of the crisis that followed the fatal crashes of two of its 737 MAX jets. Mr David Calhoun a board director for the past decade who replaced Mr Mullenburg as chairman two months ago, will take the helm from mid-January,…
THE PERFECT WAY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AND JOIN THE ARTISTIC ELITE documented in the wonderful “Art London” a new book on the scene. This neat little book is a wonderful guide to all things Art mainly in London. I have been to some of the Art Fairs referred to on page 8 and…
The modern liberalism since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad, has dimmed the Economist’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government and a free hand for the West. The history of liberalism is on…
The year is 1964, in Ceylon, Jay and Kairo have debut meeting, “ I needed a guide, a hero, illumination, Jay, I now know, needed an acolyte” says Kairo, the narrator of the book, when Ceylon is on the brink of change with schools closed, the government in disarray, the press is under threat and…
The Lloyd’s building, City Of London also known as the “Inside-out building” completed in 1986. Highlights architectural Bowellism. Battersea Power station now sold to Malaysian developed to turn into residential apartments this iconic South West London landmark and decommissioned coal-fired power station is an evocative Grade II listed building. The Egypitan-esque building the famours Hoover…
Many of us take the buildings around us for granted. We pass them on a bus, work worship or live in them and sometimes never look into the complex subject of the designing placing and construction of them. But this book breaks the mould and makes us think! This handy sized book measuring 5 by 7…
MPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January 2020 by 358 votes to 234, a majority of 124, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament. The bill would also ban an extension of the transition period –during which the UK is out of…
The Rise of Skywalker, the final film in the epic Star Wars had its debut screening in Hollywood. The plot details of Star Wars have been kept under wraps but director JJ Abrams has said the trio’s characters –Rey, Finn and Poe will be reunited on-screen after dividing in 2017’s The Last Jedi. Daisy…
Review of “33 Walks in London that you shouldn’t miss” by Nicola Perry. Photographs by Daniel Reiter. Anyone who lives in or visits London would love this book. I have read a few different chapters on walks and all of them are timed, contain photos, are directed and contain fully comprehensive details on what you…