AI at Bletchley Park
George Morrison
AI at Bletchley Park Word on the Week 4th November 2023. This week the great and the good showed up at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, the home of the UK principal centre of Allied code-breaking. It became famous after WW2 having previously been kept secret. Its purpose today was not so much code-breaking […]
Halloween
George Morrison
Halloween Word on the Week 28th October 2023. The name Hallowe’en comes from All Hallows’ Eve. It appears on the traditional church calendar, as the eve of All Saints’ Day. It arrives next Tuesday 31 st October the day Protestants remember Martin Luther’s spectacularly triggering of the reformation. On 1 st November, faithful Catholics will […]
Rain, Rain, Go to Spain
George Morrison
Rain, Rain, Go to Spain Word on the Week 21st October 2023. Rain, Rain, go to Spain and never come back again! This, or something like it, was an unexpressed wish of many as they splashed through storm Babet yesterday. There is something of a random nature about where these Atlantic storms will make […]
O Jerusalem
George Morrison
O Jerusalem Word on the Week 14th October 2023. Once again the attention of the world is centred on Israel. The Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu – mortified by intelligence lapses – has seized the opportunity to threaten the Hamas terrorists with extinction. Their breaching of Israel’s Southern boundary occurred all too easily and the […]
Personal Pronouns
George Morrison
Personal Pronouns Word on the Week 7th October 2023. Perhaps one of my most satisfactory joys of leaving childhood was to put behind me what I learned about pronouns. In some ways I was glad I was not a Frenchman with their attributing either masculine or feminine gender to words. One less thing to remember! […]
MV Matthew
George Morrison
MV Matthew Word on the Week 30th September 2023. The ship, under its new name, ‘Matthew’ sailed into Irish waters this week. It had come from the Dutch island of Aruba in the South Caribbean as the MV Honmon to Willemstad in the Dutch protectorate of Curaçao on August 18th from where it sailed to […]
Rugby
George Morrison
Rugby Word on the Week 16th September 2023. In case there is someone who doesn’t know, the Rugby World Cup has got under way. This is a world-wide event with Ireland lining out against Tonga tonight. All games are being played in French Stadiums. These are located in various cities culminating in the final in […]
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