Again the BBC demonstrate that by their criteria, criticising established power is bias, but sucking up to it is impartial, since sucking up to established power is normal and natural and a completely morally neutral thing to do. Exercising journalistic power against the more powerful is right out: a resign or be fired offence. It's *taking sides*, you see. Wielding a journalistic platform carelessly against those without power is, again, normal and natural therefore impartial.

What i find frustrating about people sucked into the right wing populist hate vortex is there's something so obviously missing. Why can't they see it? Is it missing in them too? The whole vibe is negative. No positivity, no vision for improvement. Despite slogans about making things great again, there's no proposal to even make them better. No plan to train and hire enough doctors, nurses and teachers, build enough houses, run enough trains. It's all stopping, cutting, banning, deporting.

I've found a use for AI. If you start typing a sentence and it successfully autocompletes what you were about to say, it was obviously something trite and overdone, so delete it and think of something better.

#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Aug How traditional is your writing? Which tradition? I don't know. My writing is quite *conventional*, if only in terms of grammar and punctuation, even with the style shifted for genre and setting (e.g. even if I'm trying to parody Jane Austen I don't do indirect speech in quotes, which seems weird nowadays, I'll just suggest the style with word choices). I don't think it's a question of tradition as such. The whole idea of writing SF is too recent to have tradition.