All posts tagged: Forget

The murder trial I can’t forget

The murder trial I can’t forget

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add Rob Rinder: the Crime I Can’t Forget to your watchlist There are some cases that follow you home. Not immediately. At first they exist only as paperwork, evidence and legal argument. You tell yourself you’ve done your job professionally. You move on. Another client. Another trial. But every so often, years later something returns uninvited: a face, a photograph, a fragment of testimony, a mother’s voice. For nearly 20 years that case for me has been the unsolved murder of Lucy Hargreaves. Lucy was 22 when she was shot dead in her home in Liverpool in 2005. Afterwards, the killers set fire to the house. Upstairs, her partner and small child escaped through a window. Even now, writing those words, I feel the same chill I felt when I first read the case papers as a young criminal defence barrister. The trial itself carried an atmosphere I have never forgotten. This was Liverpool at a moment of deep distrust between parts of the community and the police. Rumour travelled faster than evidence. Fear sat …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget your go-to maxidress – less is more this summer | Dresses

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget your go-to maxidress – less is more this summer | Dresses

Published by Sam Flores

One sunny day recently, I looked around and realised that every woman in my vicinity was wearing the same dress. Not the same dress, exactly. But the same dress. A maxidress, colourful but in a tasteful sort of way. Floaty, probably with a tiered skirt. Wholesome and vaguely rustic, but also a bit fancy. You know the dress I mean, because if you have been at any outdoor event between 2019 and about last Thursday, you have had the same experience. The maxidress has colonised summer dressing, and it’s out of control. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. So I am here to tell you that the maxidress must die. Ha! Not really, but also sort of yes, really. It started so well. When the maxi first landed, it beguiled us all. Floor-length, after all, was new fashion territory for anyone born after about 1965, so it felt fresh and exciting, plus you could go to a party in flat shoes and not have to …

The pet I’ll never forget: Mush, the cat who taught me about life, love – and closing the cellar door | Cats

The pet I’ll never forget: Mush, the cat who taught me about life, love – and closing the cellar door | Cats

Published by Sam Flores

In July 2021, after a few beers on a summer evening, my flatmate, Lew, answered an internet ad. By 5pm the next day, we had a kitten. She was a swirl of tortie-and-white fluff, with a small pink snoot, and huge ears that made her look more bat than cat. We called her Mush, pronounced like “smush”. From the moment the result of our drunken decision arrived and hid behind the sofa in our south London flat, we were in love. Like many first-time parents in their 20s, Lew and I were fussy and overprotective. Neither of us had ever been responsible for a living creature before. When I held her tiny body against my chest, I felt anxious. Any little thing sent us running to the vet. A crusty eye. A single flea. Was she too small? Was she eating enough? “She’s in perfect physical condition,” the vet assured us during one of her many checkups. As a pandemic baby, Mush didn’t socialise much during her first year of life. She saw only me, …

Forget the fascinator: the dos and don’ts of wedding guest dressing | Weddings

Forget the fascinator: the dos and don’ts of wedding guest dressing | Weddings

Published by Sam Flores

The invitation thumps on to your doormat – or, as likely, into your inbox – and rather than feel excitement for the ensuing nuptials, you feel dread. What on earth to wear? The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Weddings are full of sartorial pitfalls. If there’s no dress code, the limitless options can feel daunting; if there is, it can feel a different kind of daunting, but with a useful guide to prevent you from feeling overwhelmed. The trick, dress code or not, is to make an effort – never flip-flops, for instance. If the invitation calls for black tie, stick to as close to floor-length as you can with a fabric that denotes formality, such as silk or velvet, depending on the season. For a destination wedding, which often translates to “somewhere hot”, be mindful of fabrics and what your hosts may have been hoping for when they planned Mykonos over rural Shropshire, and apply that to your wardrobe. Breezy linen …

The pet I’ll never forget: Tilly, the rabbit who taught us how to raise a family | Pets

The pet I’ll never forget: Tilly, the rabbit who taught us how to raise a family | Pets

Published by Sam Flores

Tilly wasn’t our first choice: my wife and I had fallen for a grey lop-eared charmer in a local shop who was unexpectedly pulled from sale. But we were now determined to acquire a rabbit, so we traipsed from store to store around south-west London, until we saw this tiny ball of brown and white fluff. Suddenly we could imagine no other bunny. Tilly was many things. When our landlord was around, she was at a friend’s. To the kale producers of Britain, she was a lifeline. To us, she was affectionate, but with a strong sense of personal space – you could tell when she wanted to be touched and when she did not. She was also a menace, gnawing on everything from books to cables and sofa legs. To my family, she was “Bad Tilly” after a weekend stay that left my father’s sofa, skirting board and, somehow, floorboards chewed up. But for eight years – through a pandemic and other personal losses – she was always there, scooting about and poking her …

The Big Toast: Why Stephen Fry, Prue Leith and Mo Farah are raising a glass to the people they’ll never forget

The Big Toast: Why Stephen Fry, Prue Leith and Mo Farah are raising a glass to the people they’ll never forget

Published by Daniella Wilson

As Brits, we’re famously awkward about talking about the important stuff: money, politics and most of all, death. Research shows that more than one in four of us feel uncomfortable discussing death – yet 74 per cent would raise a drink in someone’s memory. That’s exactly what we’re all invited to do on Monday 25th May for Celebration Day. Inspired by remembrance occasions such as Mexico’s famous Day of the Dead – where people honour those who have died with colourful and joyous celebrations – Celebration Day encourages us to pause and remember those who are no longer with us. This year the nation will raise a glass, cup or mug for The Big Toast at 7pm, to mark the memory of someone special. It’s a chance to reflect and remember those who have shaped our lives, from family and friends to inspirational public figures. Celebrating the people who shaped us Dame Prue Leith will be toasting her ‘great influence’ and ‘best friend’, younger brother Jamie (Simon Jacobs/PinPep (Image taken at ‘The Portrait Restaurant by …

Enterprise AI agents keep failing because they forget what they learned

Enterprise AI agents keep failing because they forget what they learned

Published by skeptic

RAG architectures are good at one thing: surfacing semantically relevant documents. That’s also where they stop. A framework called a decision context graph addresses that gap by giving agents structured memory, time-aware reasoning, and explicit decision logic. Rippletide, a startup in the Neo4j ecosystem, has built one. The key capability: agents that are non-regressive, able to freeze validated sequences of actions and compound on them over time. “The key point you want is non-regressivity: How do you make sure that, when the agent will generate something new, you can compound on the previous discoveries?” said Yann Bilien, Rippletid’s co-founder and chief scientific officer.  Why RAG doesn’t go far enough Enterprise context is sprawled across ERP tools, logs, databases, vector stores, and policy documents. Generative AI tools can retrieve from all of it — through keyword search, SQL queries, or full RAG pipelines — but retrieval has a ceiling. Notably, data retrieved may not be relevant to the decision at hand (thus causing hallucinations); and, even if agents do pull the right data, they often lack …

The pet I’ll never forget: Nya, the therapy dog who makes everyone smile | Mental health

The pet I’ll never forget: Nya, the therapy dog who makes everyone smile | Mental health

Published by Sam Flores

I got Nya, a German shepherd, when she was a puppy. She has such a good temperament – she’s really calm around people. When she was five years old, I decided to register her with Pets As Therapy, an organisation that brings therapy pets into hospitals, care homes, schools and other places to befriend people, and help reduce stress and anxiety. I work as the safeguarding and crime prevention lead for TransPennine Express (TPE). Nya comes out with me on the rail network, attending events to raise awareness of mental health support. She is TPE’s registered therapy dog – it’s the first train operator to have its own – and I’m really proud of that. A lot of people have anxiety about travelling. She can help with that and with feelings of depression. At one event, there was a woman struggling with low mood. She spent 20 minutes with Nya, just rolling on the floor, stroking her, cuddling her. She came up to me and said that it really helped to break her negative chain of thoughts. Nya puts a smile on …

Forget the 5 senses: A neuroscientist says you actually have 7

Forget the 5 senses: A neuroscientist says you actually have 7

Published by Daniella Wilson

What if we actually possesss seven senses rather than the traditional five? More importantly, what if tapping into these “hidden” faculties could help us to navigate our lives, making everything from self-regulation to understanding others infinitely more simple? We spoke with Andrea Bariselli, a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, author and podcaster, to discuss two “extra” senses currently gaining traction in scientific circles – proprioception and interoception.  The expert details how these bonus senses underpin our intuition – but can these really be catalogued alongside the long-established roster of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch? More than meets the eye: Uncovering the ‘hidden’ 6th and 7th senses © Getty ImagesUnderstanding our ‘extra’ senses – proprioception and interoception – can help reduce chronic stress and improve emotional stability, even in a fast-paced world Bariselli breaks down the definition of the two additional “senses”.  “Proprioception is what allows us to sense our body’s position and movement in a given space,” he says. This concept goes a long way in explaining why proprioception drills have become a staple in modern …

Forget the Red Carpet: At the Cannes Film Festival 2026, the Stars Are Just as Chic in Casual Looks

Forget the Red Carpet: At the Cannes Film Festival 2026, the Stars Are Just as Chic in Casual Looks

Published by Sam Flores

The Cannes Film Festival 2026 is proceeding at full speed, with glamour on every corner. But some of the chicest looks aren’t on the red carpet, the undisputed scene of the glitziest gowns. Instead, take a peek at the sunny streets of the French resort and in the cult celebrity sighting spots for some of the cooler fits in Cannes—or toward the trip to the stars’ favorite hotels. Begin at the Nice airport, where the big stars disembark. Along with the entrance to the main hotels on the Croisette, the French airport has become a veritable catwalk filled with celebrities sporting casual looks. Cascades of sequins or sumptuous long dresses are lovely, but who wants to wear that on a plane? Let’s face it, it’s not just sequins, rustling silks, and lamé that the Cannes Film Festival is made of. Practical jeans, oversize shirts, T-shirts, or sundresses are the foundation of daytime outfits for the festival’s biggest names. When you’re off the clock (or the carpet) why suffer, when less rigorous and constructed looks can …