A common complaint among readers is that those accused of sexual offences are dragged through the press, while their accusers enjoy anonymity. Those accused of sexual offences do not have any statutory anonymity, whereas those who claim to have been the victim of a sexual offence, as listed in s.2…

T/W, sexual offences. It is always interesting to see how people criticise the way the media have presented the news of the day. However, there is one particular critique which seems to demand some kind of reply. This is the suggestion it is somehow incorrect to report Tim Westwood has…

An unwritten rule of journalism is that we should not ever want to become the story, but this week Prince Harry has put us at the centre of our own attention. The Duke of Sussex told a story about when he had claimed to a friend that: “The UK is…

The murder of George Floyd was an inhuman crime which should shock any person of conscience into reflecting on the suffering which black communities around the World still face to this day. …

A pond where a couple drowned hundreds of years ago was at the centre of an investigation conducted by two army veterans and a dancehall musician last night. Micky Vermooch, a former infantryman, sat cross-legged on a fallen tree on the stretch of boggy terrain which lay around Blackweir Pond…

Turtle Rock Arriving in Sheffield at gone midnight for the first time after a trip from London on the Megabus is, I think, enough to legitimately fatigue most film reviewers. And yet I still felt an unshakeable sense of failure when I arrived slightly after 10am at the Showroom Cinema…

4/5 stars Throughout his career, Danny DeVito has proved that it’s possible to be short (1.47m) and still pack a punch, and his compact comedy film Curmudgeons is no exception. The film stars DeVito’s daughter, Lucy, as a 30-something singleton who is trying to arrange a lovely surprise for her…

Episode embedded here if you scroll down! It was my great pleasure to appear on DataSkeptic, a podcast discussing stats, machine learning, and AI which reaches 30,000 weekly listeners. Not only was this a chance to feature in what is widely regarded as one of the ‘Top 10’ podcasts on artificial intelligence, but it was a chance to revisit my exciting tale of the Loebner Prize Turing Test. They also sent me an awesome t-shirt (for free!), and were just generally lovely and friendly throughout the experience. Would highly recommend anyone else who gets the chance to appear on the show!

The British public are happy to play their part in cutting down the 2.5bn disposable cups thrown away in the UK every year by paying more for disposable cups and carrying reusables. A survey carried out for the Independent reveals that 54% of people back the introduction of a latte levy, a 25p charge on disposable cups suggested by MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee. The government has rejected the Environmental Audit Committee’s recommendations to introduce the 25p charge and to consider a total ban by 2023.