BBC Proms 2026 Under African Skies: The Songs of 'Graceland' www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (Skip the first 7:50 minutes where nothing happens)
BBC Proms - 2026 - Under African Skies: The Songs of ‘Graceland’ - BBC SoundsLadysmith Black Mambazo and guests celebrate 40 years of Paul Simon's Graceland album.www.bbc.co.ukFred Flintstone sees adverts for old folks and thinks: "Why isn't someone taking care of my later life for all the taxes I pay?" Pensions, housing, social care — still unsolved. The "sell-side" experts shouldn't write the answers. Voters need durable, cross-government solutions they actually trust.
Henry TapperWe do need an answer to Fred's question.
Reading this piece on Philip K. Dick + Silicon Valley. My old pessimist ate it up. The emerging optimist wants to retreat into Asimov and Clarke's 1950s space-opera. Dick's work doesn't resolve the tension between hope and despair; it dramatises it. That's probably why neither impulse goes away.
Financial TimesForget Asimov. Philip K Dick saw the future ft.trib.al/cQMIiyT