This week on The Headliner...
President-elect Trump says that he doesn't believe the US intelligence community's assessment that the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was the work of the Russians. This, despite evidence from other countries, including British intelligence, which shows that Putin had ok’d a US hack in 2015 in order to strike during the 2016 election campaigns. Mr. Trump now plans to cut CIA jobs, and restructure the America’s top spy service. Part of the Trump transition team, former CIA director James Woolsey quit before The Donald’s comments. Outgoing Vice President of the USA, Joe Biden, meanwhile simply told the incoming President to “grow up.”
With those two major political super powers changing the face of democracy, in the UK two powerful titans of industry are also wrestling for control of public opinion. the British media. Max Mosely, who successfully sued billionaire, Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers Ltd for a 2008 exposé, is calling for punishing reforms to the UK media under Article 40, which seeks to impose state regulation on the Press. The so-called “sleazy millionaire with a grudge against the Press” has almost “single-handedly funded ” Impress, the only press regulator approved by the government, with £3.8 million. Predictably, there has been a media outcry, and no wonder; press freedom, which guards against political corruption, is a fundamental right of a free people.
Do Brits care about such liberties, or are we too busy talking about how we should dress for shopping? It’s the latter, judging by the volume of social conversation – and press coverage – about two women who went shopping in their pyjamas. It's hardly a burka ban, but people have still gotten hot under their presumably starched collars about the two Romany travelers dressing down for snack shopping from retailer Tesco.
Those attending the world’s biggest technology show, CES Las Vegas, were given an even better reason to never get out of ‘the sack’, let alone change out of their bed wear to go to the shops. Techies at the Sleep Number 360 (catchy name) have invented a bed that can warm your feet, adjust in real time to your biometrics, light up when you leave the bed, and automatically sense when you're snoring. It also records your sleep quality via an app and can help you smarten up your bedtime routine. Like some of the best memories, some of the products on view should very much stay in Vegas. The $200 Kératase Hair Coach hairbrush has sensors to monitor how you brush your hair and how roughly, whether it's wet or dry, and a microphone to listen out for dry hair tangles. It then feeds all that data into an app that checks local weather and wind speed.
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