Here is the documentation for D&D 5e’s Frightful Start cantrip. I found it hard to find using google. This has been taken from the DnD beyond character maker. This has been posted to make a URL. …
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Brexit Reset – Spring 2026
The Government has announced it plans to introduce a Bill to allow the Government to “dynamically align” with the European Union‘s single market. This comes at the end of a series of events over the last four and half months, since I wrote, https://davelevy.info/wiki/brexit-reset-winter-2025-26/ I comment on these at https://davelevy.info/labours-brexit-tanker-is-turning/, since then What’s disappointing is…
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Rouen
I didn’t know its Musee des Beaux Arts had the biggest impressionist collection outside Paris. Here are my notes. …
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Gibraltar & immigration
A treaty has been signed between the three parties. The headline is that Gibraltar is to become part of Schengen land.
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Military Air Transport in European NATO
I was thinking about how Europe might ensure its capability should the US reduce its commitment to NATO in Europe. In Pressing Reset, a Fabian pamphlet, Calvin Bailey MP, one of Labour’s ex-military MPs wrote in an article, “Defence Co-operation” that the UK had superior offerings in maritime capability, medical capability and logistics. The last…
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Electoral finance reform
Have the Labour Government finally decided to put a stop to foreign donations? The Guardian reports in an article entitled “Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK”. It’s an important issue but caps are needed for domestic donation too.
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Seurat and the Sea
An exhibition at the Courtauld, the inventor of pointillism … he died young in 1891 and so has a smallish body of work.
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Reeves – Mais 2026
I had a look at Reeves’ Mais Lecture 2026. Here are my notes and links, I have not read all the links yet and so have not drawn conclusions. …
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From Here On, We Must Go Alone
I was sent an English [machine] translation of a speech by Jürgen Habermas together with a prequel summary. … I am sharing below the new speech by 96-year-old Jürgen Habermas, titled “From Here On, We Must Go Alone,” which he gave at the Siemens Foundation in Munich. It is about the future of Europe and…
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Decluttering Windows 11
There’s a lot of stuff claiming that W11 is bloated and the bloat impacts performance. I decided to experiment and here are my notes.
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The Law and Free Speech
A lengthy post on “Free Speech/Free Expresion” by Graham Smith on linkein caused me to pick up my copy of “Prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence”, published by article 19 in December 2012 which reviews the conflicts between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on civil and political rights. The…
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Two speed E.U.
One of the reform proposals at the end of the last EU mandate, was a multi-speed Europe. I reported on the most explicit initiative https://davelevy.info/wiki/sailing-the-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu/ . Has the time come again to look at this as an answer to the EU’s sclerosis. The challenges are clear, with the federalists or federalist adjacent players looking at…
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Baba Yaga’s Hut, in D&D
I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went…
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An AI hiccup on the capital markets
I have collected a couple of articles about the AI stock sell off in Feb 26. Is this the beginning of the burst.
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Notes on a D&D cleric
I decided to make another D&D Cleric, I got fed up falling down with one of my gishes. Here are my notes.
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