Martin Thom is an editor, translator and writer.
Planning regulations were modified last year, with AI data centres redefined as ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’. Any attempt by a local council to reject or pause such a project can be overruled. AI data centres are to be built on the site of the old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, in the teeth of fierce community and council opposition, and at Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, despite the district council’s rejection of the plan.
If this new year was a precedent, there will be serious prophetic constipation till around 2001. The Independent on Sunday of 22 December last weighed in with a mere forty crystal-gazers, from...
In 1817, at the asylum of La Salpêtrière in Paris, a long-term inhabitant died of pneumonia. Her malnourished, oedematous body was taken away for autopsy. For some years before her...
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