Another day spent in the strange space of the oral examination room. Is this what dentists feel like all the time?

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The good news ... just possibly Jeremy Clarkson has finally overstepped even the BBC's tolerance & will be pulled from the airways.

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The bad news ... yet another reason to feel even greater ambivalence about Apple with the release of the Watch.

Really & truly who would want one? & is there a more perfect example of a technological manacle? The insidious power & subterfuge lies within the very name: Watch. Put it on & become a willing subject shackled to surveillance.

For 'branded' read 'banded'.