The World Trade Centre Will Finally Rise From The Ashes

The final piece of New York City’s World Trade Centre is finally set to rise almost 25 years after 9/11 destroyed the original Twin Towers.

Plans for the new 55-story structure were revealed on Wednesday by American Express, which intends to use the site as its new headquarters.

Governor Kathy Hochul joined the credit card giant to announce that construction on 2 World Trade Centre could begin as early as spring.

The milestone arrives nearly a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when al-Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the twin towers, leaving almost 3,000 dead.

Its completion, expected in 2031, will mark the final chapter in the long redevelopment of the 16-acre World Trade Centre campus destroyed more than two decades ago.

‘Building 2 World Trade Centre will bring another iconic skyscraper to Lower Manhattan, create thousands of good-paying union jobs and provide billions in economic benefits to New Yorkers,’ Hochul said.

More than 2,000 union construction jobs – and 3,200 jobs in total – are projected in the Big Apple as the huge project moves forward.

The final skyscraper alone is expected to pump around $5.9 billion into the city’s economy and a total of $6.3 billion into New York State, according to officials.

The tower at 200 Greenwich Street will span approximately two million square feet at the site’s northeastern corner. 

American Express CEO Stephen Squeri called the building ‘an investment in our company and the community,’ adding that it will generate ‘billions in economic benefits to New Yorkers.’

He also said the move reaffirms the company’s ‘deep commitment to the neighbourhood we’ve called home for nearly two centuries’.

American Express has long invested in its workforce since setting up its existing headquarters at 200 Vesey Street in 1986.

‘Our new headquarters will be more than just a building – it will be a place for our colleagues to feel energised, inspired, and proud – a home for innovation, interaction, and growth,’ the CEO said.

‘We’re excited to work with our partners and local leaders to shape this exciting new era for American Express and Lower Manhattan.’

The project will stand as a strong sign of renewal, overcoming years of engineering, financial and political hurdles – not to mention the public debates – that long delayed reconstruction at the site. 

It also comes amid efforts by other states, including Florida, to entice companies away from New York.

So, now they’re constructing another monstrosity to honour 9/11, which is a farce, actually, because they’ve just elected a Muslim mayor. Talk about adding insult to injury.

I think everyone in New York recalls the day the Twin Towers fell. It was just another gorgeous day in Manhattan. Clear blue skies, but then everyone watched in horror. Those poor souls were trapped with no way of getting to safety, and the heroic firefighters and police who went into the abyss, not even thinking about whether they would ever get out alive again. Just innocent people going about their day. They might be gone, but they will never be forgotten.

However, we say that we won’t forget, but the painful truth is that we have forgotten, because if we hadn’t forgotten, then these fools wouldn’t be building replacement towers like this.

The Twin Towers had character and presence – they made the skyline. This new build will be just like a soulless glass box. They could have done something extraordinary, but they chose not to; they are just making another skyscraper.

A Disabled Woman Is Forced Into A Nursing Home Against Her Will

Lucinda Ritchie previously lived in her own adapted bungalow in Billingshurst, West Sussex. She was admitted to hospital with pneumonia last April, but 10 months later, she was not allowed to return home.

Instead, this February, she was taken to a nursing home in Uckfield – an hour from her home and family. Within two days of being there, her condition worsened, and she was returned to the hospital.

NHS Sussex said it was “committed to working with Lucinda and her family to make sure she receives high-quality and safe care to meet her needs”.

Neil Allen, an independent barrister, told the BBC it was “very unusual” for an adult with full mental capacity to be moved to a residential home against their will, as it was “totally unlawful”.

The NHS has denied that funding considerations played any role in the decision-making around Ritchie’s care, saying it was based on her clinical safety.

But Allen said disputes over the funding of people’s healthcare packages were happening up and down the country all the time.

“That is a national issue at the moment,” he explained.

Ritchie has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a condition that affects the joints; functional neurological disorder, which affects her mobility; Addison’s disease, a hormonal disorder; and epilepsy.

She has a tracheostomy and sometimes uses a ventilator. Able to speak when she was younger, she has mostly used eye-gaze technology to communicate since 2017.

Before her hospital admission, Ritchie had 24‑hour one‑to‑one nursing funded in her own home by NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC).

She was studying for a master’s in sustainability at Southampton University, as well as acting as a charity ambassador and keynote speaker.

In 2023 and 2024, Ritchie was recognised as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK for her pioneering work supporting communication using eye movement.

She was admitted to East Surrey Hospital last April with pneumonia and suffered further complications, which prolonged her stay.

She wanted to be discharged back to her own home, but this did not happen.

Instead, her mother Christine Ritchie says care commissioners at NHS Sussex All Age Continuing Care (AACC) told them Ritchie would be going to a nursing home.

Ritchie refused.

On the day she was transferred, Ritchie told the BBC she was “devastated” and wanted to get back to her own home.

More recently, she explained: “In my own home, with my nurses, I feel safe and can see my friends and family easily.

When she was taken from East Surrey Hospital to Temple Grove Nursing Home, Ritchie’s mother said her powered wheelchair was “switched off and pushed”.

“She didn’t consent to go,” she told the BBC. “It’s absolutely horrific.”

If a person has the capacity and can communicate what they want, then these people should not be able to control their lives.

Due to her disability, this woman shouldn’t have been denied the opportunity to live in her own home. Her human rights are being violated, and a nursing home is not the proper setting for her.

By refusing to pay for any other option—in this example, nursing care in her own home—they can coerce you into entering a nursing home. They can claim that it’s her own decision, but in practice, there isn’t a choice. They then contend that they have provided a suitable and secure care placement, and that the individual has the option to reject it, absolving them of all accountability.

Some Cancer Patients Have To Wait More Than 104 Days For Treatment In The NHS

The NHS is failing on key cancer targets, with some patients forced to wait more than 104 days from referral to treatment, damning figures reveal.

Almost all trusts failed to ensure 85 per cent of patients waited no more than 62 days in 2025, although there was wide variation in performance.

At the worst hospitals, fewer than half of patients were seen on time last year, according to NHS England data.

This risks cutting their survival odds, can make some treatments less effective and is likely to increase their anxiety.

The longstanding target of treating 85 per cent of patients within 62 days has not been met at a national level since 2014.

The Government has also set an interim target for trusts to treat 75 per cent of patients within this timeframe by March this year, in light of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, only three of the 119 acute trusts with similar data achieved or exceeded the 85 per cent mark last year, while fewer than a quarter reached 75 per cent.

The three managing to meet the 85 per cent target in 2025 were Calderdale and Huddersfield (89.2 per cent of patients), Homerton Healthcare (85.8 per cent) and Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells (85.7 per cent).

The bottom three performing trusts were Mid & South Essex (seeing just 45.4 per cent of patients within 62 days), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (50.1 per cent) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals (53.1 per cent).

At a couple of trusts, at least one in six patients who started cancer treatment in December 2025 had been waiting more than 104 days since an urgent referral.

Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said: ‘Every cancer patient deserves access to timely, high-quality care.

‘Although NHS staff are working hard to cope with increasing pressure on cancer services, far too many people still face unacceptable delays for vital treatment.

‘The UK Government has set an important commitment to meet all cancer waiting times targets in England by 2029, but this can’t be achieved at the current rate of progress.

‘More investment in NHS workforce and equipment will be crucial to deliver genuine change for patients across the country.’

Across England as a whole, 69.1 per cent of patients (239,038 out of 345,847) started cancer treatment within 62 days last year, up slightly from 67.7 per cent (221,380 out of 327,221) in 2024, but well below the target.

Sadly, the NHS is not fit for purpose these days, but if we complain too much, our government will eventually privatise it. Better the devil we do know than the devil we don’t.

However, the mental torture these cancer patients must be going through is agony for them, their families and close friends. It is terrible all around, and we are all being conned about the supposed improvements to the NHS, but yet again, Starmer keeps going on about how he’s saved the NHS, but it’s in a worse state than ever, and Starmer is just attempting to save his bacon, but if piggies end up on our plates, then they’re not so clever, are you Sir Keir?

What does this government expect when we are being bombarded with illegals? Our NHS is now overwhelmed with foreigners who can’t even speak a word of English, and it will only get worse.

People like Starmer and his cronies don’t have to stress about getting treatment; they likely all have private health insurance, all probably paid by the taxpayer. Who’s standing on their doorsteps now, clapping? No one!

In April, GPs Will Have To Offer Same-Day Appointments For ‘Urgent’ Health Problems

GPs will be made to offer patients same-day appointments for ‘urgent’ health needs from April under the terms of a new NHS contract.

The British Medical Association said the move would likely be presented as a ‘major win’ for patient access, but family doctors will be ‘left reeling’ at the requirement.

It comes as a concerning new survey reveals nearly half of the public (48 per cent) avoided or delayed contacting their GP about a health concern last year.

People cited problems contacting their local practice, opting to wait for the problem to go away and not expecting to be offered a suitable appointment as some of the primary reasons behind their decision.

But two in five respondents (42 per cent) think the general standard of care provided by the NHS declined in the last year, and only one in eight (12 per cent) believe it has improved.

Tim Gardner, assistant director of policy at the Health Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said: ‘Our findings signal that too often people are going without the care they need, which risks storing up health problems further down the line and placing more strain on an already stretched service.’

A report compiled by the think tank says that public confidence in the Government’s NHS policies ‘remains low’, with 54 per cent disagreeing that their government has the right policies for the NHS compared to just 15 per cent who agree.

It comes as the Government pledged to increase access to family doctors in England via a new GP contract, backed by a £485 million investment.

According to the contract, any patient who has an urgent need must be able to schedule a same-day GP visit.

A separate £300 million of existing money in the service will be ring-fenced to help recruit additional GPs or increase hours of current family doctors, the Department of Health and Social Care said.

Chris McCann, acting chief executive at Healthwatch England, said: ‘People consistently tell us that GP services are becoming harder to use and that simply getting through the door for care can be a challenge.

‘For example, we often hear from individuals who wait in long telephone queues for an appointment, only to be told that all slots have been taken for the day and that they must try again tomorrow.

‘Plans to recruit more doctors should make it easier for patients to get appointments and ensure urgent cases are handled more quickly.’

Additionally, the contract mandates that general practitioners (GPs) utilise a procedure whereby they consult hospital consultants before sending patients to them for specialised treatment.

I’ll believe this when it actually happens. Firstly, our concept of ‘urgent’ and their idea of ‘urgent’ are two totally different things, and secondly, don’t get your hopes up, at best it will be a telephone consultation.

I’m not sure how it’s going to work in some places where you can’t get an appointment because the doctors are down at the local hotel giving priority treatment to leeches who are coming over in small boats. In some areas, they can’t even get a police presence, but a call from one of these establishments, and they turn up blues and twos.

Then, if you do get through to your surgery, you have to get through the receptionist first after waiting in a queue, and then you’re told that they can only offer you a phone appointment. Receptionists should all be employed by Border Force because they let no one in!

The City Lawyer Wet Himself At A Party, Made Anti-Semitic Slurs, And Assaulted Women

A City lawyer has been suspended for reportedly groping coworkers, making racial statements, and getting so inebriated at work parties that he wet himself.

While a partner at SBP Law, Ryan Williams was accused of using a slur to characterise a Black person and making antisemitic remarks to Jewish coworkers.

At a party in an East Finchley pub, north London, in 2021, Williams is said to have told a Jewish colleague that ‘racism to Jews does not exist’, and said: ‘You’re all on top,’ the tribunal heard.

He was also accused of having repeatedly described his black opponent in a charity boxing match as a ‘tall, large n*‘, using the foul insult repeatedly, The Telegraph reports.

According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), which filed the lawsuit against Williams, his actions became increasingly unpredictable during the evening, culminating in him hurling pizza across the pub garden.

By the end of the night, he was described as ‘incredibly drunk,’ and an Uber driver reportedly refused to pick him up.

He was reportedly incapable of standing up and, in his state of intoxication, urinated on his clothes.

Williams allegedly made previous antisemitic remarks to a Jewish coworker while working on a case related to a Jewish security charity.

The colleague claimed Williams said there was only security outside synagogues because Jewish people have lots of money.

At a Christmas party at the Dorchester Hotel, two months after the pub-garden party, he was accused of telling the same Jewish coworker that they only got their job due to their faith, and that Jewish people think they are above everyone else.

He was also said to have referenced another colleague’s ‘big Jew hands’.

At a bar after the party, the tribunal heard that Williams slapped a female colleague on the inner thigh, before touching her and another colleague on the bottom.

The SRA examined the accusations and referred the matter to the tribunal, accusing Williams of breaching bullying, harassment and discrimination rules.

Williams repudiated the claims, but stepped down from his £125,000-a-year partnership role at SBP Law, and is now a partner at corporate London firm Healys LLP.

He was hauled before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal, which found all the charges proved and suspended him. It is understood he has been banned for 12 months, with a full judgment yet to be released.

He shouldn’t worry, though; he will probably be offered a position with our government – he would fit in rather nicely there, particularly with all his attributes.

There are some truly reputable solicitors, and then comes along one like this man, whose conduct gives the profession a bad name.

The wisest course of action would have been to abstain from drinking, particularly during work parties, so you wouldn’t be held accountable for any inadvertent or deliberate wrongdoing. Although in this day and age, you can still be blamed even without the alcohol.

Unfortunately, alcohol always exposes a person’s actual nature.

My recommendation, just don’t go to work parties, they are awful things anyhow. Keep your work and social life completely separate because you can’t choose your work colleagues, but you can choose your friends.

These events might take place in impressive establishments, but on the night, this is where HR are most alert and ravenous, and one should never give them the pleasure. The problem is, this is what happens at work parties. Some fool gets overexcited because maybe their home life is boring, and work is their only form of social life.

Mandelson Was Arrested For Misconduct

As part of an inquiry into suspected misconduct in public service, Peter Mandelson was detained and placed under arrest at his residence in London.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed a 72-year-old man was arrested on Monday afternoon following searches at two properties in London and Wiltshire.

Detectives arrived at Mandelson’s Regent’s Park address at about 4.15 pm in two unmarked vehicles.

After spending almost half an hour inside, he was seen exiting the property and getting into a police car flanked by officers.

Scotland Yard said: ‘Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

‘He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview.

‘This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.’

Two weeks after police searched Mandelson’s residences, he was arrested.

He had been spotted at both addresses in recent days after keeping a low profile following the release of the second batch of Epstein files. 

The Epstein files have revealed Mandelson communicating lewd and off-the-cuff messages with the late child abuser, including joking about ‘well-hung young men’ when he was a Cabinet minister. 

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that Mandelson’s arrest is ‘the defining moment of Keir Starmer’s premiership’.

She added: ‘It’s a matter of when (Starmer) goes, not if he goes. I asked him if he had full confidence in Peter Mandelson just a few months ago, and he said yes, despite all of these allegations being known, only to see the man arrested shows that the prime minister has terrible judgment.

‘He’s weak. He has not released the information around the (Mandelson) files, though he sacks the person who is supposed to be overseeing the release. I think that shows what kind of person the prime minister is.’

Earlier in February, police officers arrived outside Mandelson’s £7.6 million house near Regent’s Park – which the politician bought in 2011 following advice from Epstein.

The officers knocked on the door and entered the house, with one of them wearing what appeared to be a small body camera.

The officers were seen gathering things from their car, including a blue box and a large bag, before re-entering the property.

Days after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on accusations of misconduct in public office, Mandelson was also arrested.

Everyone who has anything to do with it will soon be singing like canaries. The dominoes are falling one by one, but how do we know if they’re rubbish arrests – smoke and mirrors to make it look like they’re giving a damn for the debauchery that went on? Two down, lots to come in the future – the inventory will be extremely long.

One card at a time – the house of illusions is falling, and they will ultimately get caught with their pants down.

But right now, they’re turning this Epstein story into a global sport. Mind you, it will probably be much better than the Olympics, but let’s face it, they’re all cabinet lickers, but what it actually boils down to is that millionaires and billionaires are paying people off to accept paedophilia.

There were evidently emails from Mandelson to Epstein in which they were discussing girls in a derogatory way. Mandelson will probably sing like a bird now in an attempt to secure himself a lower sentence. The can of worms has now been firmly opened, so expect more to follow.

Taxi Driver Dropping Off Merry Punters For Donations

The local council has prohibited a bar owner who gave patrons rides home in his black taxi from continuing to do so.

Paul Hartfield, who owns the Flying Horse in Smarden in Ashford, Kent, has raised hundreds of pounds for charity by inviting customers to make small donations to the Motor Neurone Disease Association for using his taxi. 

He did not make a profit from the cab service, which he hoped would help punters get home safely, and chose the charity because one of his patrons had been diagnosed with the disease. 

Mr Hartfield had raised at least £700 and drove around 100 customers’ homes since he began providing the complimentary rides in November last year. 

But Ashford Borough Council chose to shut the not-for-profit service down on Friday after a local newspaper report highlighted the landlord’s charitable work, according to reports.

Mr Hartfield was told by the authority’s licensing team that he was subject to ‘requirements for local authority licensing’ because his black cab was a ‘private hire vehicle’ – despite the landlord not personally benefitting financially.

He explained that customers of The Flying Horse – which dates back to 1790 – were simply asked to make a charitable donation for using the taxi.

But a council official reportedly wrote back, telling him a person can ‘be said to derive commercial benefit’ – even if a payment isn’t made to him. 

Mr Hartfield told The Telegraph: ‘It’s mean-spirited that we are doing this for charity and I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do, to be honest. 

‘With the Government increasing business rates and rising costs, it just feels like it’s all going against us pubs at the moment.’

Flying Horse customer Paul Upton told the newspaper the council’s decision was ‘pure jobsworth nonsense’.  

Mr Hartfield previously said of his taxi: ‘I bought it especially for the pub. I used to own a black cab garage, so I know cabs.

‘This pub has done a lot for charity, and we have some great customers in the village. There are a lot of lovely people who come here.

‘So, when they ring up and book a table, I ask them if they want a lift home. And if they say yes, they make a donation to charity.’ 

The Flying Horse had formerly been run by Mr Hartfield’s daughter Natasha before he took over. 

So, councils are at it again. They shouldn’t be called councils; they should be called the Mafia.

This man was simultaneously doing two nice things. For what reason would they wish to prevent him from doing that? I’ll explain why: anything that doesn’t increase their income is prohibited.

Even if you tried, you couldn’t make this up. It’s a great way to extinguish neighbourhood spirit in the community, though, and I would encourage more of this, rather than less, but then I guess that’s why we have councils – to show us all what total stupidity looks like.

Of course, eventually there will be no pubs or areas of entertainment, because our government doesn’t want us talking to each other – have you people not learnt anything yet?

This nice, thoughtful man is making sure his customers don’t drink and drive, as well as making money for charity, and the council wants to prevent this. I wonder if the council would stop him if he were collecting illegals from the beaches? He sounds like an extremely nice man, and I hope the foolish council recognise how ludicrous they’re being.

Starmer’s Classroom Class War

Labour has been accused of taking its class warfare into schools with plans to means-test funding based on parental income, in a move that could punish hard-working families.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will publish a schools white paper aimed at revamping special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision and halving the attainment gap.

A central aspect of the proposals would involve reforms to how £8 billion in funding is targeted, with household income rather than whether a child receives free school meals used to allocate it.

Labour’s new disadvantage funding formula would also consider where a child lives, as well as how low parental income is and how long this has been the case.

Following a punitive tax assault on private schools, the Conservatives have denounced the ideas as being a part of Labour’s class warfare.

Tory shadow education secretary Laura Trott said: ‘Every child deserves to receive the support they need. But it is wrong to narrow the disadvantage gap by dragging everyone down.’

Yesterday, Ms Phillipson was forced to deny she was a ‘class warrior’ as she promised to ‘come down hard on those who are profiting from the system’.

Speaking to Times Radio, she said: ‘We’ve seen a big expansion, for example, in private equity, in specialist schools, where the quality is often very, very variable, where the costs are high.’

Asked if she sees herself as a ‘class warrior’, she responded: ‘No, I don’t. I’m really ambitious for every child in our country, regardless of background.’

Ms Phillipson has claimed the new funding formula is a ‘golden opportunity’ to cut the link between background and success. She will outline reforms that will see mild special needs cases dealt with in school after the spiralling number of children with behavioural conditions such as ADHD nearly bankrupted councils.

The SEND reforms will also see education, health and care plans (EHCPs) reassessed once children reach the end of primary school from 2029.

Under the proposals, students with less complicated and serious needs, such as autism and ADHD, will reportedly no longer be considered suitable for EHCPs after the number of children with a SEND plan skyrocketed from 240,000 to 639,000 in a decade.

All teachers will be trained to teach SEND children, and mainstream schools will receive a percentage of £4 billion in funding to help them support children with special needs in the classroom.

Numerous children have to go to specialist schools, and some of them are a long way away, and the parents of those children would be devastated if their children lost their places at their school, but this means testing will hurt hard-working people who work but just cannot afford to self-fund.

Sadly, it appears to be that there are so many so called ‘able people’ who don’t seem to have the capacity to learn and understand about ‘diagnosis’, and about the amazing SEN children who learn differently and would also like to achieve in life – but if it’s not happening to them it doesn’t exist, until it does happen to them, then it does!

There are people out there who are peddling myths about this children, and they have no idea. To be honest, it would be more cost-effective to heighten people’s awareness of SEN support and learning because, clearly, some people are not that smart, and what we need in the classroom is well-trained teaching staff and adequate support for children with a diagnosis.

It seems that there is a specific group of people who are jealous that another group can get support for their diagnosis. If a child or person has been diagnosed with a condition by a professional, then they have been diagnosed; it’s as straightforward as that – I just don’t comprehend why ‘able-bodied’ people are so envious of disabled people, because if the shoe were on the other foot, they wouldn’t be so quick to judge.

The Tesla Model S Driver Who Crashed Into A Woman While Reaching For His Phone

Tesla has been forced to fork out almost $250 million to the family of a woman who was killed when a Model S vehicle struck her and her boyfriend while on Autopilot. 

Naibel Benavides Leon, who was 22, died from the crash, while her partner, Dillon Angulo, suffered severe injuries during the impact in Key Largo, Florida, in April 2019. 

The driver, George McGee, confessed that he was leaning down to pick up his phone before the electric vehicle crashed into the couple’s parked car. 

However, McGee said his 2019 Tesla Model S was in ‘Autopilot’ mode, and the car’s feature failed to brake before the fatal collision. 

Benavides Leon’s family sued Tesla and the driver, but their case was consolidated with a criminal indictment in 2024 and subsequently moved to federal court for trial by jury. 

The trial marked a setback for Elon Musk’s vision of advancing self-driving cars and contributed to a precedent for holding vehicle manufacturers accountable. 

Jurors ruled in favour of the family last August, but attorneys for Tesla filed a motion for a new trial, claiming there was not enough evidence to support the assertion that the car’s Autopilot function caused the crash. 

However, US District Judge Beth Bloom supported the jury’s decision on Friday, awarding $200,000,000 to be divided between Angulo and Benavides Leon’s family, with an added $19,470,000 to Benavides Leon’s family, and $19,470,000 to Angulo.

Bloom said the evidence presented in last year’s trial supported the jury’s decision that Tesla was in part at fault for the crash. 

The judge’s decision has finally closed the years-long case that has haunted a bereaved family since the devastating accident.

The horror evening unfolded when Benavides Leon and Angulo pulled over on the side of the road to watch the stars near Key Largo, Florida, on April 25, 2019. 

McGee was driving his Tesla, and video footage from the car’s front camera showed him blowing through a red light at nearly 70mph. 

McGee then crashed into the couple’s parked vehicle, throwing Benavides Leon 75 feet. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Angulo broke numerous bones and suffered a traumatic brain injury. He attended the trial against Tesla and stepped into the courtroom with a limp. 

In a 60 Minutes interview from October, Angulo recalled the brutal moments of the crash. 

In the end, it was the driver’s fault because autopilot does not imply that the driver should not have constant control of the vehicle; however, it is down to the company as well because they made the vehicle and it was their design, which undoubtedly still has some bugs in it, and automation is certainly not fool proof, and will always need some form of control.

If a product is advertised and it doesn’t do what it was advertised to do, then that suggests the company lied. After all, ‘Red Bull’ was sued because it didn’t give people ‘wings’, but then you’re dealing with a nation that wore face masks because they were told to. Sheep follow sheep!

Cars should invariably be driven by people. Even driverless trains have someone keeping an eye on them in case something goes seriously wrong.

Equipment goes wrong, and when all is said and done, it is just a piece of equipment, and please tell me a piece of equipment that hasn’t gone wrong at some point, but then everybody wants to take zero accountability, and nobody, no matter what type of car it is should be looking for their phone while the car is in motion.

She Became One Of The World’s Richest People – But There’s A Catch

A woman has become the wealthiest person in the history of the world, in theory, but can only spend her money on two things.

Sophie Downing, from Nottingham, was given what she thought was a voucher worth £10 for 200 Degrees Coffee for Christmas. But when using it to purchase a matcha latte last week, she found the balance was much higher – in fact, it was more than £63 quadrillion.

That’s 63 followed by 15 zeros, or a thousand trillion. It means that in theory she is 100,000 times richer than her closest competitor – the somewhat impoverished Elon Musk – but she can only spend the money on coffee and croissants.

Put into perspective, the balance is also 670 times the total of the world economy, but Ms Downing is keeping her feet on the ground. “I thought it was really funny. I’ve never seen anything like that before,” she told NottinghamshireLive.

The 29-year-old first used the gift card at the 200 Degrees coffee shop in Flying Horse Walk, Nottingham, during her lunch break on February 12, and that was when it became apparent that something was amiss with the balance.

“The guy at the till was really confused. His face was just like what?” she remembered. “This massive number came up on the till. He said, ‘I’ve never seen it before, but it’s fine for you to keep it’. I didn’t clock it until he gave me the receipt. I thought, ‘surely not, that’s actually crazy’.

When Ms Downing, the owner of the hair removal company Secret Sugar Club, used the gift card a second time on Tuesday, she discovered the amount remained in the tens of quadrillions.

Since then, she has decided it is best not to keep using the card, although she says that 200 Degrees has not raised the issue with her. She joked that she could have gone in and bought everything from the shop.

“Maybe they have scanned the wrong thing. It looks as though they have scanned the barcode, which has turned into the balance,” she said. “I could go in and clear everything off the shelf, but I don’t want to take the mick. It would be better if it was a different gift card.”

This was clearly a technical error, which could happen to any one of us. At least she can have a coffee and a croissant every day now because the voucher credit will last for an extremely long time – it’s a pity she can’t cash it up for actual money, but then she could always invite Elon Musk out for a coffee.

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