Hire bike crackdown delayed until 2028, Hackney mosque investigation, busy weekend of festivals + the £20m Southbank flat

Sloan’s new dining experience opens tomorrow, Papa Singh gets lifetime achievement award, Sebb’s reviewed in The Guardian, Santa Lucia reopening as Encore, Hot Doughnut returns + more...

New concert hall gets £20m 'lifeline', St James Quarter in Westfield deal, weekend protests + Portobello Food Market returns

North Glasgow streets getting 20mph restrictions, council and union talks breakdown again, bus service joins £2 fare cap, Red Road homes move forward + The Weekend Guide

Long before the internet became a place we carried in our pockets, before social media transformed identity into an interface and before artificial intelligence entered everyday conversation, William ...

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‘Milestone moment’ in Grenfell investigation, progress on new Thames Wharf DLR station, parents’ dismay over Leyton school closure + Friday night line dancing lessons at Moth Club

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

New events series for Ross Bandstand, Leith shop ceiling collapse drama, Portobello bar The Espy is not closing + Tom Kelly's monthly Water of Leith wildlife update

Car flips outside train station, George Square South closure extended, Glasgow Caledonian University strikes continue, pregnant woman refused accommodation + hundreds support first Hampden

Soho House investigation, Heaven nightclub protected, Leyton Orient new stadium update, Barbican ghost tours + 10 best new theatre openings

100+ artists and businesses face eviction, The Skinny magazine is rescued, two councillors blocked from re-election bid + EICC to host People's Emergency Briefing community screening

Terminal V reveals new location, The Skinny saved, council workers still in the dark over pay, Graeme Dott sentenced + Nelson Mandela statue time capsule

Hi, I'm Dave Goodman, an award-winning novelist and short story writer based in East Lothian, Scotland. I write spy thrillers, science fiction and more.

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

Uni boss claims students are being 'weaponised', North Bridge overnight closures, decision on hotel plan for former Scottish Widows HQ + new saunas for South Queensferry

The Thistle medical emergencies rise, Springburn Ladbrokes fire, Great Scottish Run road closures, new Merchant City hotel opens + swans move to new home

Oxford St pedestrianisation date, 15,000 homes hit by water outage, plan to end e-bike ‘Wild West’ + Black History Month events

The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.

Water outage in five boroughs, Waterloo bridge closure fear, Ladbroke Grove murder hunt, ‘Buses for London’ confirmed + the TfL staff sprucing up stations

Recycling centre fire, council pauses fire and rehire plan, community objects to student block, memorial garden reopens + Glasgow graffiti on Egyptian pyramid

Five-weeks of uni strikes begin today, MP to quit over ageism and sexism, Southside community centre reopening + new music series at Brown's of Leith

The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.

(This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some typos, I'll fix them next week when I get home.)

27th September 1960:

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

Current Moon Phase and Monthly Moon Phase Calendar including Geospecific Moon Rise and Moon Set Times & Moon Sign Calculator.

'Waste Paper - A Poem of Profound Insignificance' by H. P. Lovecraft