Today, I turn 50.

Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time.

Thank you.

UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist:

“The UK’s net-zero strategy is as unrealistic as “magic beans fertilised by unicorn’s blood” and will fail to deliver the emissions reductions promised by 2030”

Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥

While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time meandering through this: A Year Unfolding 📚

One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between Time Spent Playing Video Games And Wellbeing – Research Digest

Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post.

I’ll write more about this tomorrow. But I just wanted to mark the day.

Two decades under the blog. 👴🏻

Evening walk at Woods Mill.

The lake at Woods Mill nature reserve in Sussex

Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?

🚨 Important discourse. 🚨

Will the Metaverse save journalism?

It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale:

How Facebook Failed the World