Time to look at the Democracy Indices again. In particular the EIU are suggesting that democracy is making a comeback. They say, “democracy stabilises after eight years of decline”. Here are my notes and links …
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More on Defence
James Schneider writes on defence in the ‘Statesman in an article entitled in the magazine, The Great British defence con, but within the URL as “britains defence budget must get more bang for its buck”, and interesting metaphor given that one of the criticisms of the current SDR is the amount of dollars it proposes…
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Frightful Start 5e
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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