I found the modals a fab way of keeping pages tidy and when writing about DnD games they allow me to hide the hints. i found some examples, and created a page with three modals, with which I had some problems which now seem nearly fixed. I will/might use the technique to hide the motions…
Read moreKazakhstan
So what’s really happening there? I made this page in Jan 2022 as protests and riots spread across Kazakhstan. I returned in 2025 and note that Wikipedia reports on the events, and suggests that it was started by the repeal of oil price caps. Otherwise, my contemporaneous notes …
Read moreLiving in Germany
So if I were to try to live in Germany, how would I do that.
Read moreThe UK Economy
What’s the economy look like today, or last march?
Read moreCOFOE, Panel 2 recommendations
I am tracking the CoFoE and the Citizens Panel 2 on Democracy and the Rule of Law has just reported, making 39 recommendations. Why are names of EU bodies always so long? Here are my notes on these recommendations. …
Read moreCitizen’s Assemblies
What’s the theory? Why are they useful and good? What role should they play in municipal or state governance? Here are my notes …
Read moreThe Glorious Revolution
Provoked by Adonis, I came across some stuff about the so-called Glorious Revolution. Here are my notes …
Read moreThe right to national self-determination
While doing some thinking as part of my work on AEIP, I wondered where the “right of national self-determination” came from. It is not defined in the UN Charter, the UNDHR or the European Convention although on thinking about it, these were all written by Nation States and so they would not be keen to…
Read moreMedium
This post comes in two parts; I started it when I was sceptic and came to the conclusion that I should join it as a subscriber. The first part sort of documents this journey and the second part captures the lessons I have learnt or at least observed to make me a more effective publisher…
Read moreUK Citizenship post Brexit
Here is a note on citizenship post brexit. I deal with voting rights in this note. Otherwise feel free to read on …
Read moreHow to stream
A comrade recommended streamyard; it opens a whole new world to me. This is unfinished and about streamyard only, I need to understand the role it plays and what are the alternatives. Here are my notes …
Read moreCopyright law and streaming
Kevin Brennan MP, introduced a private member’s bill earlier this year to establish the right to ‘equitable’ remuneration for musicians and composers for use of their material on streaming platforms. It would seem that this is an attempt to implement a series of recommendations from the DCMS Select Committee. (I think the bill will fail…
Read moreUK employee protection and the EU/ILO
The Guardian published a piece talking about how the gravity of the EU aquis and its coming regulation on employment rights in the gig economy will impact UK employers. Maybe/maybe not! The article also reminds us of Johnson’s election promises,
Read moreThe EU’s data strategy
Just come off an IAPP webinar called, “The EU’s Strategy for Data: What the DSA, DMA, DGA mean for privacy”. These stand for Digital Services/Market/Governance Acts. I wonder if this the EU’s equivalence of the UK’s Data: A new direction. Much of the seminar, or the bit I stayed for was does this conflict with…
Read moreSubsidiarity and proportionality
This article has become my notes on the TEU/TFEU., aka the EU’s constitution. It started on the limitations that the EU’s principle of Subsidiarity places on it, I was specifically interested in the limitation it places on the member states. Sadly there are none, Here are my notes …
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