Cut, Copy, and Paste inventor dies aged 74

Larry Tesler,  an Apple employee who invented cut, copy, and Paste, dies aged 74 Computer scientist, Lawrence Gordon Tesler Larry, an American computer scientist played a vital role in the development of a range of Apple products serving as Vice President of AppleNet and Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. Born in Bronx, New York, on 24th…

Winter Solsace

December 21, marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and in 2020 the longest night of the year and the shortest day and also when the sun is at its lowest daily extreme elevation, is also going to be a witness to “ Great Conjunction “ an incredible astronomic event, the rare aligning of…

Two found guilty of manslaughter

Two men guilty of manslaughter in 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths Two men Eamonn Harrison (24) who dropped off the trailer at the Belgian port, and people smuggler Gheorghe Nica (43) were found guilty of the manslaughter of all 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths in Essex last year and were convicted by an Old Bailey…

Sterling and FTSE fall as European borders close to the UK

The FTSE 100 fell 3 percent before recovering slightly, while the main German and French markets were nearly  3 per cent lower. Sterling fell 0.9 per cent against the Euro and dropped 1.6 per cent against the dollar. Travel restrictions hit airline stocks, with IAG, the British Airways owner down 8.6 per cent, EasyJet tumbling…

Mythical look at Britain’s unexpected places

  A Britain in the cracks of the urban façade, a land where unexpected life can flourish, a  land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, o motorways and ring roads of hospitals and housing estates of roundabouts and flyovers, places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect. Places where human…

UK’s first unexplained Wealth Order as £1m diamond ring was seized

Zamira Hajiyeva, married to Jahangir Hajiyev, a banker, who is serving a 15-year sentence in their native Azerbaijan for stealing millions from his state-controller bank, managed to spend £16m in Harrods, by using 54 credit cards many of which were linked to her husband’s bank is currently fighting the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).…

“Time and the hour, run through the roughest day”

McCrum a former editor at Faber and Faber, former literary editor of the Observer, and the author of an acclaimed memoir My Year Off, reveals he is a long-standing member of the “Shakespeare Club”,  “quintessentially English mix of stage-struck self-improving playgoers with English literally degrees”. A lively guide to Shakespeare’s life, times, and language, and…