What’s going on with Labour’s policy making? We are waiting for an NPF meeting, but that doesn’t seem to inhibit the front bench? This is a note on Reeves, her rules and macroeconomics.
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Northern Lights
Must do it. Here are some notes! I fancy Lapland rather than Iceland. I fancy going back to Norbotton. When’s best, this wasn’t so helpful about timing but otherwise quite up beat about the area.
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Digitising DVD
Right! I want to convert my Babylon 5 collection to digital. Can this be done easily. There are about 40 DVD’s in the collection, so it’ll be a real pain to do. It’ll also take a lot of space, I reckon 188Gb, this is where bittorrent and distributed filesystems would be useful, except that most…
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Progressive Alliance, not so fast
Someone in my feeds raised the question as to whether there was an anti-progressive alliance bias to Labour’s NEC’s approval/prohibition of local government coalitions. I looked to see if Compass had anything on it, but it seems not but I found these two links. …
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World Economic Power
I was thinking about UK defence policy and considering the role of the domestic economy. I was doing this in the light of the GMB’s internal debates on defence manufacturing. These charts are dated 2017 and I believe that Italy and France have both overtaken the UK since then and the measurement in USD will…
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The Battle of Boston Harbour
There’s something dramatic about the story of HMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake. The featured image is in the pubic domain asserted by wikipedia.
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Adopting the Creativeily theme
I have adopted the Creativeily theme on this wiki. It’s still being maintained and has better comment control and editing, than my previous themes.
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Spain elects 2023
The Spanish are having a general election, it is/was unexpected and called by the Government after the governing coalition lost seriously in regional elections. (An ignored lesson for some maybe).
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Watching Critical Role
I really enjoyed the first two series of critical role, and have also watched a bunch of the one offs and mini-series. I watched on youtube, not on the real-time streaming service and found it useful to have series of resources to hand to help understand the rules of the game. I made a page,…
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Rise of Empires (Deprecated)
It’s not the easiest game to learn; here are my notes and links. When I discovered it was occupying a shit load of space, I deleted it. I have marked this deprecated, although others may find some of this useful. I had got to the point where I couldn’t be bothered to learn how to…
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Labour’s coming manifesto 2023
Originally created to help understand the NPF process in 2023, the process culminated in the 2024 manifesto. Labour published its draft National Policy Forum report, I was told on the 9th May 2023. The Labour Party URL for the report is here, on the Labour Party’s main site and behind the members’ ID wall; I…
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Autostart on Android
I think I’ll have another go, it it surprises me how poorly documented this is. Here are my notes and links …
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Europe
Where shall I go next?
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Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)
I came across the words “self sovereign identity”. It seems to be something friends have been working on for a while; here my initial links and notes. I suppose the big question is, what can a self-certifying identity server access?
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The Swiss Constitution
It’s different, it’s always been republican, what do we have to learn from it.
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