Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

Did you get anything nice for Christmas? Socks, Meltis Newberry Fruits, Mad Lizzie fitness video? I must say, I was rather surprised by my Mandarin-speaking humanoid robot. Conversation around the dinner table was a little bit limited due to his inability to speak English, let alone with a Black Country accent,.but I'm told this will all be easily sorted in time for New Year's Eve when he's had his UK market software update.

Ok, I may have made some of that up. Mainly the bit about me having the humanoid robot for Christmas. But if a rather scary report by the Royal Bank of Canada is correct, we could all be seeing them very soon. The........

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