In the “good old days” the British neighborhood policeman was not just a law enforcer; he was also a social worker and man-of- all-work, known to all locally, even by name. If your grannie with alzheimer’s disappeared and couldn’t find her way home, it was the local Bobby who would find her and escort …
Maturity Now I’m mature I can sense in my heart That it happened too late and I’m falling apart. Its not just attention I’m tending to lack But my abs are less tight and my biceps are slack. My hair, once a forest, now looks like a moor, I was once eagle- eyed, but my …
A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, according to analysis by a New York accountancy firm. More than 5,800 Americans renounced their citizenship in the first six months of 2020, Bambridge Accountants reports, a 1,210% increase on the six months to December 2019. The US’s global tax reporting requirements are a …
A Belgian man has been the victim of a bizarre nine-year-long harassment campaign: for nearly a decade, he has been sent pizzas that he never ordered. “I cannot sleep any more,” said Jean Van Landeghem, who lives in Turnhout. “I start shaking every time I hear a scooter on the street.” One day in 2019, …
To The Economist Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron. Intelligence is an attribute of living things, and can best be defined as the use of information to further survival and reproduction. When a computer resists being switched off, or a robot worries about the future for its children, then, and only then, may intelligence flow. I …
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