November 2025
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Teen Social Media Bans Are Really About Surveillance
Politicians love a simple story: “Kids are in trouble online. Ban them from social media. Job done.” It sounds tough, it sounds decisive, and it sounds like it’s “for the children”. It’s also nonsense. A Teen Social Media Ban Won’t Save Our Kids – It’ll Just Supercharge the Surveillance State A ban on under-16s using…
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ADHD Hyperfocus, Lost Days and Microphone Testing
I found a voice memo from a few months ago and it nearly floored me. Not because it was dramatic. Not because it was poetic. But because it was honest. Brutally honest. I’d woken up at 6am with a simple idea. “I’ll just test a couple of microphones.” You know, for future YouTube plans. Sensible.…
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Phone Addiction Is Stealing Real Human Connection
You’re mid-sentence. You’re telling someone about your day, something that happened, something that matters to you – and they glance down. Just for a second. Their thumb swipes. Their eyes leave yours. And you stop talking. Not because you’ve finished. Because you’ve been dismissed. You know the moment. We all do. You might be on…
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“AI Curious” Why Jargon Won’t Grow Your Business
Most of what’s written about AI for business is theatre. It looks smart, it flatters the writer, and it leaves the average business owner no clearer on what to do when they open the laptop tomorrow morning. The line that set this article off was a perfect example, a headline promising to take organisations “from…
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The Digital Leash: Why the “Brit Card” is a Disgrace
Is the proposed UK digital ID scheme a genuine tool for security, or is it a technocratic surveillance system designed to monitor and control every aspect of British life? The “Brit Card” is an insidious expansion of state power that uses the pretext of immigration control to implement a mandatory, biometric-linked surveillance system. It threatens…
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BBC Bias & Trust – The Reality Behind Public Frustration
If you still believe the BBC is the last bastion of unbiased truth, it’s time for a cold splash of reality. For years, both sides of Britain’s squabbling political aisle have accused the nation’s flagship broadcaster of bias. The BBC’s Bias Is More Than a Glitch in the System These are not passing gripes. The…
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They’ll Tell You VAT Isn’t Rising. They’re Lying.
In Summary: UPDATE: This didn’t happen (yet) but I’ll leave this here as a reminder of what could still happen one day when Rachel Reeves (or a future holder of the red briefcase) fumbles with the budget calculator. The November 2025 budget could see the VAT registration threshold slashed from £90,000 to around £30,000, forcing…
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AI Is Just Software – Not Some Sentient Miracle
Artificial intelligence is not a miracle. It’s not a digital god or a living brain that’s about to rewrite human evolution. It’s software. Clever software, sure, but still software. It doesn’t feel, it doesn’t think, and it certainly doesn’t “know” anything. It predicts. It guesses based on patterns. That’s it. AI Is Just Software, Not…