Reading it at the moment, imo they seem to go very easy on him

I don't agree that there was no mens rea. Someone did something which they knew *could* have had that consequence and didn't make much attempt to prevent it. That's reckless rather than negligent.

They gave you the Milanese without the spaghetti?

As far as I can tell, Norbert Wiener was just an extremely annoying person

... that he wanted to leave the cybernetics literature behind because he "wished to avoid having either to accept...Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him."

I don't think it was so much hippie punching (although the shift from analog to digital feedback did significantly raise the bar in terms of how much computer programming you needed to know to be able to contribute) as academic feuding. In a later interview McCarthy said...

Also the people who didn't see the clear instruction about single books and series. Why not try reading if you like reading so much

There are like loads and loads of drugs where nobody understands the mechanism how it works. And "passing a stage [sic] three trial" just means "demonstrably curing a lot of people without sufficiently serious side effects"

Hang on, Treasure Island

It would actually be nice if Northern Ireland was *ever* in the news for something good or interesting rather than weird and nasty

Peter Dale Scott said that the JFK community uncovered this huge and interesting network of links between politics, business, intelligence and crime, but then felt sad because they hadn't solved a relatively boring whodunnit.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a radical skateboarding dog

You could just spend all day tripping over them and filing a claim.

Down With Skool, as any fule kno

Without wanting to get into gross regional stereotypes, I suspect that the most financially disastrous market would be the wonderful admirable but surprisingly accident-prone people of Merseyside.

Former Times columnist Mick Hume no less. It's amazing how the whole RCP cadre were absolutely plastered over the Omarska affair, yet since then their individual and collective paths have been constantly smoothed every step of the way.

It made something with much more brevity

I don't know what figures you are using, but since the overall EU budget is less than €200bn, I am pretty confident that the UK has never received £150bn from it in any year

The English mind cannot comprehend the existence of the A55 (because it's signposted in Welsh)