Peter Rhodes on Rockall, Finisterre and anglers who know no fear
After a £10 million jewel theft at a £40 million house in London, a witness who examined CCTV footage of the burglar declared: “He was a lone wolf but also a spider man.” Whatever happened to cat burglars?
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New figures reveal that nearly two-thirds of transgender inmates who identify as women are convicted sex offenders, which explains the Daily Telegraph spread: “Trans women prisoners sex offenders data shock.” You don't get to write a headline like that every day.
Some of the predictions for the year 2025 made on Tomorrow's World (BBC) in 1995 have come true but others, including mass use of self-driving cars and hologram-guided surgery, failed to take off. What went wrong?
Older viewers of the show 30 years ago had seen their world transformed from horse-power to moon rocketry in a single lifespan. People assumed the same rate of progress would continue, or even speed up. But it didn't.
