I have a couple of notes on defence policy on this wiki. All recent white papers have emphasised that the defence capability we build is onky capable of success if working with allies. The primary military alliance is of course NATO, which has over the last 30 years concerned itself with “out of theatre” operations….
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I had no idea that the British Army had multiple long range rocket launchers. Here are my notes. …
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I decided to finally make some bread. I started with one of Jack’s recipes, obviously the second will be better than the first. It tasted fine, I made a bit of mess and the kneading could have gone better.
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In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.
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The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
Read moreFor those interested in Labour’s new proscription rules this is the central list of Prohibited Acts …
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This is a trick, plane or train? It’s an arse-ache to get to cheaply (and quickly). Here’s what I have found.
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While in Berlin, I saw a post bitching about Corbyn and Starmer’s contribution to Brexit, and remembered that Labour’s RemaIN campaign run by the then legacy leadership was also weak. I know that the doorstep operation was weakened by the lack of commitment of the party and the exhaustion from the local elections that had…
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I can’t make the Nulis theme work with modals and there’s been a problem with CSS for a while; I am planning to switch my theme again. I have collected whole bunch, and have short-listed I like Cronus, which is a derivative of Tempo. Nulis and Cronus seem to have been abandoned. Here are my…
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I needed to extract what I said about Tanks from my piece on the 2021 Defence White Paper as it took a lot of space on a peripheral issue. What I captured was the leaks before publication which suggested that the Tanks were going to be chopped, and then comments on the white paper’s outcome….
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I have added a translate feature to this bliki. See “Read More”, below or on the About page.
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I fancy a trip, Rough Guide is on the way; here are my notes. This started as Vilnius bit I have become more ambitious. I have just returned, and need to bring the page up to date. 20.10.2025
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I am working up another article on Corruption and had cause to look at how the private sector is pursued. The answer is by public sector bodies who produce reports on how effective they are. Here are my links and notes.
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EUMANS held a conference to co-incide with the COFOE plenary 4. Some of the CTOE members spoke at the conference. Here are my notes and links.
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