There is a Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry going on into University Funding, with hearings held at the beginning of the week. On the Tuesday 25th, they took oral evidence including that from Susan Lapworth, the CEO of the Office for students, who stated that 50 institutions were [financially] vulnerable with 24 at risk of…
Read moreAnd yet there’s more, the Labour Government and immigration.
Shabana Mahmood trailed and then announced even more appalling restrictions on asylum seekers. The Govt announcement entitled, “Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy” is on the web. Freemovement,org respond with this article, ‘Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control”’….
Read moreRolling back the tide
The EU is rolling back some of its corporate regulatory measures in the areas of sustainability reporting, and coming soon, simplifications in the digital economy laws. Here are some notes and links …
Read moreDeutsche Bahn
I may have missed an opportunity in September, here is the DB railway map, I should have travelled from Stralsund to Lubeck via Rostock …
Read moreThe Commission Work Plan 26
Oops, missed this, … published on the 21st October, this article was made on 5th November and is unfinished. A summary of the defence & security programmes and the social cohesion programmes would be useful.
Read moreWhat are the politics of the EU Commission?
This explains a lot. This is a chart of the EU commissioners by political party, I made this today and it includes a few judgements. The EPP have a voting majority on the Commission. In addition, there is a creeping Presidentialisation of European politics which in my opinion concedes too much power to the singular…
Read moreGB Energy
What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? …
Read moreDate (Use & Access) Act
A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later.
Read moreScripting on the raspberry pi
This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script …
Read moreMore on timed power i.e. switches
I have a DIY project coming up which I need a time control on. I was pointed at some switches which can be controlled by a phone app called Tayu. …
Read moreRoyo
I went to the the Clarendon Art Gallery in Greenwich and came across a picture by an artist that signs himself Royo. See below for an image credit of the featured image which is a digital version of one of his pictures taken from a site claiming to present his work.
Read moreFrance
I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. …
Read moreUK/US Technology Partnership
Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come.
Read moreIT Sovereignty
Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS).
Read moreMy EU Start Page
I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index.
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