Surely it serves the same purpose as alt text, it makes the story more accessible.

Should I stop listening to the shipping forecast, or just mute Thames, Dover, Wight and perhaps Portland?

I was sure this must be a joke, but the tweet seems to exist.

I hope the maths/science graduate would raise questions about biases between fields (response rate was 35%) and whether the differences were significant.

The rhetoric around these announcements has been completely unacceptable. It's a resignation issue for me. Yesterday we had the "automatic" right to residency and citizenship, later edited out, I think, but should never, ever have made it into an official announcement.

www.politico.eu/article/dani...

One is an area and the other is a volume?

Maybe Euston will not sue.

I say comedies, but like "The Day Today" they increasingly feel prescient.

Perhaps the BBC comedies "Twenty Twelve" and "W1A"; the latter had the Director of Better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W1A_(TV...

Isn't this why "it does this thing well" can't be taken to mean "it will do other similar things well? We don't know what "similar" means. But we are used to things being tested that way.

I tried it for VBA code recently to do some matrix calculations. It saved me writing the nested loops - got them right first time. The input and output was very inefficient. When it failed I was only able to figure out the (rounding error) issue because I've done this a lot before.

Isn't this sort of thing a feature of meritocracies? Some people have to work much harder to establish "merit", which is defined by the already powerful.

Is there any other national broadcaster anywhere whose news presenters can't pronounce the names of significant settlements in their own country?

Good MPs also do a huge amount of work in their constituencies - holding surgeries, supporting local groups, highlighting local issues; it's not exclusively about attending the HoC.

New technologies often bring new effluent that subsequent generations have to remediate or live with: Galligu from the chemical industry, radioactive waste from nuclear power. Such AI use is poisoning our information sources. I wonder how we will depollute the online environment.