At the moment there are two fixed points on our morning walk, the wall where I sit and rest my painful back halfway round and the hedge where #sophiefromromania stops for a good scratch

That’s what I’m planning to do. I think chat bots can be useful, but have their limitations and in the early stages when they are bedding in, you need to have enough staff to provide backup

Well, that’s the first time I’ve been welcome to the stage by a trumpeter! Great event at the Barnsbury book festival and gratified that many people bought my memoir #RuskinPark as well as my #sophiefromromania book

AI at the surgery - great until it's not A new way for the NHS to foul up patient communication

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Getting an AI bot to triage phone calls to my local GP surgery seemed like a great idea – but faced with a complex case it turned into another case of NHS communication failure

www.barnsburybookfestival.org/authors/rory... Really looking forward to talking to my old pal Hugh Pym about #sophiefromromania , AI, the search for a cure for Parkinson’s, and much else at the Barnsbury book festival this afternoon

A beautiful morning and #sophiefromromania was in a frisky mood for our walk - a bit too frisky with some other dogs. Then we all got a #bigbreakfast whether we deserved it or not.

How lovely to have a walk before breakfast with @sociabledog.bsky.social and Nina and Ripley - heading home today after a wonderful stay in Portsoy

What a wonderful audience at the Portsoy Book Festival to hear me and @sociabledog.bsky.social talk about #sophiefromromania - great questions and enthusiastic book buyers

A serious question: is there anyone with a good ethical record who manages to be on good terms with Trump for a longer period of time or are the two mutually exclusive?

Walking another dog this morning- with @sociabledog.bsky.social and Ripley before our event at the Portsoy Book Festival tonight

Yes #sophiefromromania I know you want to pursue that cat to the ends of the earth, but we can’t go onto somebody else’s property….

Inspector #sophiefromromania is relaxing after another successful bin day followed by some vigorous barking at the decorators who dared to enter her home

Still a few tickets left for my Barnsbury Book Festival event with Hugh Pym on Sunday www.barnsburybookfestival.org/authors/rory...

I somehow doubt that this was a targeted crime! It was actually a very cheap bike so it’s more a matter of inconvenience than the money

My bike was stolen from Ealing Broadway bike racks right under a CCTV camera - understand that the police can’t look at hours of footage for every theft. But how can I get access to the footage?

Also available on other platforms if you’re not a Spotify fan. Here’s an Overcast link

Listen and speak up (or sing!) for the people with Parkinson’s in your life

My bike got stolen yesterday and
I stepped outside this morning with #sophiefromromania to find the foxes had emptied our food bin all over the pavement but we’re trying to keep cheerful

In all the kerfuffle around having my bike stolen, I didn’t get round to putting up a picture of #sophiefromromania but here she is this morning on a decent walk with Goncalo and Juno

Infuriating end to a great afternoon recording two episodes of #moversandshakers - got back to the bike racks opposite Ealing Broadway station to find my bike had been stolen. Thief obviously not put off by CCTV

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

Movers and Shakers: Speak Out! A special edition for World Parkinson's Day

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... A special edition of the Movers and Shakers podcast recorded at a great World Parkinson’s Day event in Sutton and featuring the launch of our voice campaign. Do listen, I think you’ll like it. (Click on the Spotify link at the top of the Substack post)

#SophiefromRomania and the prof having a moment in the kitchen

Gorgeous morning for our Sunday park walk with #sophiefromromania then home for a #bigbreakfast

Celebrated World Parkinson’s Day at a fabulous event organised by the Sutton PUK group - the Movers and Shakers recorded a podcast and did a live show promoting our voice campaign

#SophiefromRomania at 6:15 this morning having successfully woken us up

The latest from the exciting innovative world of crypto.,,,

The prof and I have various aches and pains making the morning walk more challenging but #sophiefromromania was very patient with us

A perky #sophiefromromania on this lovely morning, but I haven’t told her yet that I’m taking her to the vet

Ah that’s my bad proofreading will try to fix

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

This is such an important essay (HT @jjn1.bsky.social ) about the dangers of blaming AI rather than humans for war crimes