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MATURE MAN AVAILABLE FOR SPEAKING, EASY TERMS

by Garrison Keillor | Apr 22, 2024 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

I haven’t yet been invited to give a commencement address this spring and I’m okay with that. I am 81, an age that’s gotten a bad rap recently, and I’m not famous anymore, but nonetheless I do have things to say to the Class of ’24 and I come cheap and have my own...

How AI will affect Real estate

by Alex Dunn | Apr 22, 2024 | The Analyst, zNewsletter

The real estate industry, traditionally characterised by its cautious adoption of new technologies, is now at a pivotal juncture. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence or gen AI (which I will refer to simply as ‘AI’ from here on), with its open-ended and...

City watchdog finds no evidence for recent political ‘debanking’ – but private banks have been picky for centuries

by Lucy Newton, Francesco De Pascalis and Victoria Barnes | Sep 24, 2023 | The Analyst, zNewsletter

After a row over the closure of his bank account earlier this year, former politician Nigel Farage has hit out at the UK financial regulator for saying it has found no recent evidence of customers being “de-banked” over their personal views. Farage believes private...

In Paper City, Japanese survivors recount their experiences of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo

by Christine Judith Nicholls | Sep 22, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Historian

This article was originally published in July 2022. Review: Paper City, directed by Adrian Francis In his first feature-length documentary, Adelaide-born director Adrian Francis offers a rigorous understanding of the American firebombing of Tokyo via survivors’...

When do strikes work? History shows the conditions need to be right

by Christopher Massey | Sep 22, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Historian

This article was originally published August 2022. There has been a significant decline in union-led strike action in the 21st-century UK. But with average public sector pay increasing by 1.5% between March and May 2022 (versus 7.2% in the private sector) and...