Monday 27 July, 2026

Bike park… …well, maybe not. Quote of the Day ”Civilisation is a thin film across an ocean of chaos”. Werner Herzog Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Ry Cooder and David Lindley | Jesus on the Mainline Link My favourite recording of this particular number. Long Read of the Day Is 2026 going to turn out like 1999? Fabulous blog post by Rory Cellan-Jones. His answer to the question is: “Only if the market fails to come to its senses about SpaceX and Tesla”. I am getting all nostalgic about 1999, the year when I first started paying somewhat obsessive attention to the share prices of technology companies, a habit which has endured to this day. As a BBC TV business reporter, watching the stock market had been part of my job for a decade by then, but this was different. In the US, and to a much smaller extent in the UK, companies suddenly needed to have one simple thing at the end of their name to send their shares rocketing – the suffix .com. All the traditional ways of…