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How was it said? don't know, wasn't there. i can't comment for something i don't know, i wasn't there. i need to hear for myself. have i had it said to me, is what i can talk about, my own experience. yes, many times. and you can see the full hardtalk interview with naomi campbell on our network starting on friday, do try to catch it. sir clive sinclair, the british inventor who created one of the first pocket calculators and brought home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. he launched the first affordable consumer computer in 1980, costing less than £100. his ventures into ne...

It also meant a lot of computer games started on a zx spectrum. that influenced a lot of games, they started on the spectrum. they are still payable today and reflect a lot of games on modern consoles. he had many successes. perhaps one of the less successful was the sinclair c5, which we can see a demonstration of on—screen now. i have actually been to a computer museum when i was reporting and tried out one of these models. they aren't the easiest to get around in. this was perhaps not his finest hour? he was always an inventor though, he loved to invent hardware. he started with calculato...

He has some pretty big challenges. the new education secretary nadhim zahawi. has to make sure there is not a left behind generation as a result of schooling mist in the pandemic. and the new foreign secretary liz truss has the job of redefining the uk's plays in the world after brexit. we will see the usual shots of ministers arriving, big smiles on their faces, usual shots of ministers arriving, big smiles on theirfaces, happy usual shots of ministers arriving, big smiles on their faces, happy to be there. behind the smiles, challenges for that team and potentially less than two years to del...

Brought his company to its knees. undaunted, he set up sinclair research and in 1980, launched a ground—breaking personal computer, the zx80. it sold for under £100. it was the zx spectrum with its colour display that was his biggest success, credited by some with launching the uk's computer and video games industries. more money had been poured into his obsession with a new form of urban transport. the sinclair c5, launched in the freezing winter of 1985, became something of a national joke and many critics complained it was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try some things and they succeed ...

It was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try some things sometimes they succeed you try some things and they succeed and sometimes they don't. and i don't look back on it and say to myself the cs was a wildest idea which failed because people jumped on it, i don't think that's true. i think it was not good enough to succeed, simple as that. having run out of money, sinclairwas forced to sell his computer business to a budding entrepreneur called alan sugar. undeterred, he continued his quest for a new kind of personal transport. but an electric bicycle, the zike, proved no more popular than the ...