Crucial Track for 19 October 2025
"Ashes" by Embrace
Embrace always sounded like a Celtic band to me. Who knew they were from West Yorkshire? Anyway, I have a soft spot for "Ashes".
Bought some Fiio SnowSky Wind on-ear headphones from Advanced MP3 Players. They sound a lot better than you’d expect for the price, and they look great.
A “major update” announcement from Microsoft today isn’t a ringing endorsement for AI (but is good news for web standards, I guess):
Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction
🤮 Business secretary Peter Kyle continues to live down to his rhyme.
The business secretary, Peter Kyle, later said the Royal Navy could be called upon to tackle the crossings “if needed”.
Family of three are first arrivals in UK under ‘one in, one out’ immigration deal
The silence from centrist pundits who worked themselves into a lather about campus cancel culture is deafening. The rise of the authoritarian populist right makes clear that elites have no principles, and the reason they are not defending liberal democracy is because they never believed in it.
🤮Peter Kyle once again reminding us his surname rhymes with vile
British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary