The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Drowning in a sea of usb cables

Technology: Friend or Foe?

I am sure that I am not alone. My life is dominated by a series of electronic devices which include a MacBook, an iPad, an iPhone (providers other than Apple are available) and a Kindle. It is not so much the fact that my whole life is on these devices, having fallen totally for the

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Happy new year

The Year in Review

The strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT Me being one of my favourite topics, I am always fascinated to see how many hits I get searching for myself on Google (it’s hundreds), or how often my Wikipedia page has been read recently (157 in the past 30 days; which makes at least seven by other people).

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The Offended Jihadi

Terrorists and Taverns

A convicted Islamic terrorist has taken offence at the name of a pub, one of the many pubs in the UK called The Saracen’s Head (in Glasgow, always referred to as ‘The Sarrie Hied’). The terrorist in question, one Khalid Baqa, is suing the landlord for £1835 and plans to extend his campaign to another

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Wind turbines

Net Zero Nuts (Part II)

Some of our post 1992 new universities, already powerhouses of mediocrity, have decided to make the prospects of their doomed students even worse. In yet another example of corporate virtue-signalling, about twenty of them have banished fossil fuel companies from attending recruitment fairs on their campuses. Whether this drive towards such empty gestures is being

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Gregg Wallace

MasterChef Meltdown

MasterChef anchorman Gregg Wallace probably has no idea what a favour he has done for the nation. His inappropriate shenanigans with women (allegedly) on the BBC programme has resulted in the Christmas specials being binned and consigned to the dustbin of broadcasting history, along with all of Jimmy Savile’s Top of The Pops episodes. MasterChef,

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