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The home of free speach. Social out bursts, news and comments all within 140 characters. Musk has saved twitter from BOTS and corporate censorship.

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WWB is dedicated exclusively to the womenswear industry. Covering retailers, buyers, manufacturers, agents and suppliers, WWB brings its readers the inside story on the womenswear trade in the UK and Ireland.

LIFE ON THE SHOP FLOOR

16 April 2013 @ 10:38 am

I’m seated at my desk for the majority of the working week, so when I had the opportunity to experience life on the shop floor

FRENCH BY NAME, FRENCH BY NATURE

20 February 2013 @ 12:05 pm

I want to introduce you to Frenchie, one of the key denim fits in the IDA collection. F

INDEPENDENT MINDS

10 December 2012 @ 9:28 am

  I recently hosted a roundtable discussion with a handful of the best womenswear indies in the North, including Black White Denim, Amabo, Bottega, Lynx, Halo and Kryshia, and it was a lively, informative and extremely interesting gathering.  

A TOAST TO THE FUTURE OF FASHION

26 October 2012 @ 1:48 pm

The judging panel, chaired by Hilary Alexander (right)

CHANEL LITTLE BLACK JACKET EXHIBITION

18 October 2012 @ 9:20 am

Sarah Jessica Parker On Sunday I headed over to the Saatchi Gallery on t

SASS AND BIDE

26 September 2012 @ 10:48 am

You have to do at least one show for London Fashion Week right?  For me it was Sass & Bide, and as it was my only show it had to be a good one – which it was.  Held at the Royal Horticultural Halls, it was the perfect background for the cool edgy monochrome of the show.   The Sass & Bide girls have raised the bar taking Sass & Bide to an International stage with their strong direction which is instantly recognisable as the core Sass & Bide DNA. And of course there was the people watching…..Poppy Delevigne, Sasha Wilkins and Alison Mosshart were all in attendanc

PARTY TIME: BUY MY WARDROBE ONLINE LAUNCH

30 August 2012 @ 9:29 am

Last night I attended the BuyMyWardrobe.com launch party at Vanilla, London, just off Oxford Street. The great atmosphere was created by a packed crowd and servings of champagne, Passion Fruit Collins and Mojito's.

A DAY WITH FASHION FRINGE

23 August 2012 @ 4:45 pm

Last week I attended a mentoring session for the three Fashion Fringe 2012 finalists at Shoreditch House. The mentoring sessions (just one part of a rigorous process to get them catwalk ready) are designed to give invaluable insider knowledge as well as leaving time for those burning questions each young designer wants to know the answers to.

COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK

16 August 2012 @ 8:27 am

Last weekend I had the very fortunate job of reviewing Copenhagen Fashion Week for WWB.

CELEBRATING INDIE-PENDENCE

2 August 2012 @ 1:56 pm

The Dressing Room’s Deryane Tadd tells Isabella Griffiths why Independent Retailer Month was a success for her store.

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Science and facts via Dr. Vernon Coleman. Dr Coleman is a general practitioner principal and a former Professor of Holistic Medical Sciences at the International Open University in Sri Lanka. He has an honorary DSc. He has given evidence to the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the UK.

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Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

8 June 2026 @ 10:19 pm

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source search agent built atop OpenAI's gpt-oss-20B open source model that fundamentally redesigns how AI executes complex retrieval tasks. Harness-1 achieves a massive leap in performance, scoring 73% average on its ability to recall relevant information correctly from a curated dataset, outperforming even GPT-5.4 (70.9%) and the next, most accurate open source search agent, Tongyi DeepResearch 30B, by 11.4 percentage points. (While

The Agentic Reckoning: Enterprise AI organizations have a runtime problem, not a model problem — and most are building the wrong solution

8 June 2026 @ 9:01 pm

In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Forty-three percent said a central team owned AI governance; 23% couldn't agree on who owned it at all; and 31% named vendor opacity as the single biggest obstacle.This new wave of research asks the next question: Once you've admitted the governance problem, what breaks first when you try to fix it? The answer from our respondents is unambiguous. The failure point is not the model. It's the runtime.Enterprises are discovering that AI agents built on stateless infrastructure — Python scripts, LangChain chains, ad hoc orchestration — cannot survive the operational realities of production. Container restarts er

When Claude changed, everything changed: Managing AI blast radius in production

8 June 2026 @ 1:02 am

Our system did one thing, and it did it well: It turned natural-language questions into API calls.The users were analysts, account managers, and operations leads. They knew what data they needed, but assembling it manually meant pulling from four dashboards, two BI tools, and a Salesforce report builder. With our system, they typed the request in plain English. A request like "Compile a report on sales volume for January through March 2026 for the Northeast region, broken down by city" was translated into an API call that the system could act on:json{  "description": "User requested sales volume for the given date range, here is the API call to get the response",  "api_call": "/api/sales_volume",  "post_body": {    "start_date": "2026-01-01",    "end_date": "2026-03-31",

Agentic AI solved coding — and exposed every other problem in software engineering

7 June 2026 @ 4:00 pm

Agentic AI is now a core part of the engineering process, driving massive execution leverage and helping us generate more code than ever before. Yet, a difficult question I’ve increasingly heard from business leaders is: if we’re shipping code faster than ever, why aren’t our products improving at the same rate?The reason is that writing code was never the rate limiter. Defining the right requirements, integrating with complex systems, and maintaining software under real-world conditions has always been the hard part. And when agents flood an organization with lots of new code, the hard part only gets harder. Agents compress execution time. They do not compress ambiguity, accountability, or operational complexity. As AI-generated code scales, human review is becoming a massive new bottleneck, and engineers are losing the context needed to catch agent mistakes. The companies that understand this will move forward deliberately and

Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence

5 June 2026 @ 10:55 pm

For three years, Microsoft's artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microsoft early access to the most advanced AI models on the planet, catapulting its Copilot products into the enterprise mainstream and adding hundreds of billions of dollars to its market capitalization. To the outside world, Microsoft's AI strategy was OpenAI.Mustafa Suleyman wants to change that narrative.In an exclusive sit-down interview with VentureBeat at Microsoft Build 2026, the CEO of Microsoft AI disclosed that a contractual change with OpenAI roughly six months ago granted his division the formal authority to pursue what he openly calls "superintelligence" — using Microsoft's own researchers, its own data pipelines, and its own custom silicon."We

Microsoft's AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents

5 June 2026 @ 7:31 pm

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives them reliable context, governance, identity, memory — and secure access to enterprise data. The company announced Microsoft IQ as a context layer across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio; Work IQ APIs coming June 16; Fabric IQ for structured business data; Foundry IQ for retrieval across enterprise knowledge and the live web; and Web IQ as a new agent-facing web search stack. Microsoft also introduced Scout, a personal work agent

AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team

5 June 2026 @ 5:51 pm

When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn't transfer, and the next person starts from zero.The problem compounds in multi-agent workflows, where teams expect agents to share context across users and tasks. Without a shared memory layer, every team member effectively trains a different version of the same agent — and those versions never sync.That gap shows up in the numbers. According to Asana's own research, 75% of knowledge workers use AI on the job, but only 5% of companies have reported productivity gains. “Model providers are getting really, really good at improving reasoning and retry loops, but what they’re not good at is bringing the enterprise work context in a way that human beings can reason about for shared memory,” Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose told VentureBeat. Asa

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Getting to know the Heritage Party with Leader David Kurten | UK Column Interviews

9 June 2026 @ 9:08 am

What makes the Heritage party tick and how did it counter censorship of small parties in the recent Welsh elections?

Be Creative! | Jerm Warfare

8 June 2026 @ 11:44 am

Creativity is fundamentally an act of resistance — a way to refuse to let societal control and conformity flatten you into a passive consumer.

Claims Made by Sandi Adams about Charles Malet

8 June 2026 @ 9:46 am

Two statements, presented as fact, have been made to a third-party by Sandi Adams, likely to cause serious harm to the reputation of Charles Malet.

Has China Already Won the Tech Race? | Silk and Steel

8 June 2026 @ 7:52 am

Carl Zha and TP Huang have a discussion on artificial intelligence, semiconductors, Huawei's latest breakthroughs, robotics, space technology, energy systems, and the future of global innovation.

Charles Malet | A Thousand Words (Part 1 of 3)

7 June 2026 @ 8:42 pm

In Part One of this conversation, Charles Mallet and Jake Fern discuss truth, control, fear, and what it means to truly think for yourself. From media narratives and public opinion to personal responsibility and sovereignty of mind, they explore why so many people feel trapped between wanting freedom and wanting to be told what to do.

Vanessa Beeley on Israel, Palestine, and Laughter | Jerm Warfare

5 June 2026 @ 11:54 am

Jerm and Vanessa discuss the trauma faced by people in Lebanon and Gaza and the importance of humour as a mechanism to cope with serious issues.

Trump Tacoed on Iran — But the Dirty War Is Just Getting Started | Silk and Steel

5 June 2026 @ 7:57 am

Carl Zha welcomes back Dr. Warwick Powell – expert on international geopolitics and China – to break down the current global crisis.

Rockefellers Were Behind the Change in Music Frequency | Jerm Warfare

4 June 2026 @ 1:01 pm

Alex Michael explores how mainstream artists are often boxed in by industry standards which limit theircreative freedom.

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A critical look at the news in the UK.

The AI backlash, Work and the Risk of Social Breakdown

31 May 2026 @ 8:49 am

By Graham Vanbergen: I have written many articles about the breakdown of the globalised world we live in. In the European Financial Review, in 2016, I warned about a rising corporatocracy, the following year about the crisis of trust in democratic institutions, in 2018 about the duel between big-tech and government, and surveillance capitalism a year […] The post The AI backlash, Work and the Risk of Social Breakdown appeared first on TruePublica.

Iran: Is a Proxy World War Brewing in the Gulf?

1 May 2026 @ 2:16 pm

By Graham Vanbergen: The US-led war on Iran has created the most dangerous geopolitical moment since the Iraq invasion – not because it is likely to become World War III overnight, but because nearly every great power now has something important at stake. Iran’s strongest weapon is not victory over America. It is disruption. By […] The post Iran: Is a Proxy World War Brewing in the Gulf? appeared first on TruePublica.

May Elections: A Warning From a Country That Has Lost Its Economic Story

30 April 2026 @ 10:31 am

By Graham Vanbergen: Britain goes into the May elections in a state of political volatility that now feels normal but should not. The coming contests on 7 May 2026 include local government elections, Scottish Parliament elections, Senedd Cymru elections and mayoral elections in England. The polling picture suggests a country splintering away from the old […] The post May Elections: A Warning From a Country That Has Lost Its Economic Story appeared first on TruePublica.

Shockwaves: How the US–Iran War Is Dragging the World Economy Down

30 April 2026 @ 9:39 am

The global economy is entering a more dangerous phase as the US/Iran war deepens. What began as a regional conflict is now disrupting energy, trade, and financial stability worldwide. At the centre of the crisis is energy. The closure of key shipping routes has pushed oil and gas prices sharply higher, feeding inflation and squeezing […] The post Shockwaves: How the US–Iran War Is Dragging the World Economy Down appeared first on TruePublica.

The UK’s Public Education System Sets Global Pace

30 April 2026 @ 9:35 am

After reform and (Covid) disruption, the UK’s education system is showing renewed strength. Steady improvements, rather than sudden change, are placing it among global leaders and now competes in the top three. Student outcomes are rising, with improvements in literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving. International benchmarks increasingly show UK pupils performing strongly against global peers. There […] The post The UK’s Public Education System Sets Global Pace appeared first on TruePublica.

Britain’s Quiet Comeback: The UK Economy Finds Its Footing Again

30 April 2026 @ 9:31 am

After years of shocks—pandemic disruption, inflation, and political uncertainty—the UK economy is showing cautious optimism. Not a boom, but a steady recovery is emerging across key areas. Businesses are shifting from their previous crisis mode position toward investment and growth. There is also a change in tone. From green energy to regional investment, the UK […] The post Britain’s Quiet Comeback: The UK Economy Finds Its Footing Again appeared first on TruePublica.

Who Will Win the 21st Century? The Struggle for the Soul of the World

30 April 2026 @ 8:08 am

By Graham Vanbergen: In the long mirror of history, centuries are not just units of time, hey are epochs of ascendancy – chapters in the human saga where certain ideas, nations, and systems prevail, while others recede into the footnotes of textbooks. The 19th century belonged to the British Empire and industrial capitalism. The 20th […] The post Who Will Win the 21st Century? The Struggle for the Soul of the World appeared first on TruePublica.

Housing Crisis: Britain’s housing safety net is collapsing

11 November 2025 @ 3:37 pm

By Graham Vanbergen: For a decade, warnings about social housing, homelessness and local government finance have been treated as background noise. In 2025, they’ve fused into a systemic risk: high and rising public debt, bankrupt or near-bankrupt councils, dwindling social housing stock, rising taxes, and record homelessness. This isn’t a future threat. It’s underway, and […] The post Housing Crisis: Britain’s housing safety net is collapsing appeared first on TruePublica.

Future View: The Collapse Of Western Idealism?

21 April 2025 @ 4:22 pm

By Graham Vanbergen: In the twilight of every empire, there lies a question not merely of power but of meaning. As America steps back from its self-appointed role as the world’s arbiter – a position solidified in the ashes of World War II and maintained through the long shadow of the Cold War – the […] The post Future View: The Collapse Of Western Idealism? appeared first on TruePublica.

Is Donald Trump Inciting War Across Europe?

16 February 2025 @ 3:44 pm

The FT writes today that – ‘European leaders, generals and intelligence chiefs gathered at the annual Munich Security Conference were anxiously awaiting clarification on vital questions such as how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, contain Vladimir Putin’s hybrid warfare and beef up the transatlantic alliance. They then found out that US defence secretary Pete […] The post Is Donald Trump Inciting War Across Europe? appeared first on TruePublica.