If I want to get from Barcelona to London, I face what should be a simple choice: either I take the plane, and pump out about 280kg of pollution that heats the planet, or the train, and spew just 8kg.

Historically, HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs) had ‘preferential creditor’ status in insolvencies, meaning it was paid before unsecured creditors such as suppliers, small lenders, and sometimes employees beyond a certain cap.

Not that George will realise this - because, you know, George - but what we’ve got here is an insistence that we cannot have a purely democratically directed economy.

The Club refused to serve my friend liver cooked pink, even though that is what most chefs recommend.

Every islander on Orkney is expected to benefit from a major windfarm being built by the local council after it won £62m in financing from the UK’s national wealth fund.

In the US, the incoming President directly appoints the heads of departments.

The mother of a severely autistic man who volunteered at Waitrose for four years has said she is “heartbroken” that he was stopped from working there after the family asked for him to be paid.

I was the first person in the UK to book (late last century) a suborbital flight with Space Adventures, the company that flew private billionaires to the International Space Station.

Not that this is unusual in the opinion pages of The Guardian but really. Some of these people are almost as old - and therefore have had the chance to develop the same wisdom and maturity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the defining force of the fourth Industrial Revolution, following the revolutions driven by mechanical power (steam), electrical power, and digital computing.

Not only is this truly glorious in that it solves a major problem it’s also very brave of the current government to do this.

The day after Trump’s election victory was certified by an electoral vote tally in Congress, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announced that, starting with the US, the company would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X”.