My compression packing cubes are broken and I need some more, or at least one more. It needs a sturdier zip. Here’s what I found …
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Helsinki
Not been at the top of my list, but since, I have limited Scandinavian plans for 2026, let’s have a think.
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The Democratic Odyssey 2024
In the EU Parliamentary year, 2024/25, there was an experimental citizen’s assembly incubated by the EUI. I attended their Florence assembly 22/2 & 23/2, and made some notes. These stayed in my notebook for too long but I have decided to make this page, which collects some reviews and views and may even have some…
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AI and images
I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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Copernicus & Brexit
The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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Labour Conference 25
Here is my #lab 25 page. Conference is to be in Liverpool again.
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Capitalism
I recently read Ingham’s “Capitalism Divided?” which has, I believe, some important insights into the nature of the British economy. The last two days I reviewed my notes I looked for further comments and reviews. He will have written a number of books but at the moment this page looks at, “Capitalism” and “Capitalism Divided”….
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Prague
I have not been there yet, maybe it’s time.
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Raspberry Pi IV
I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps …
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Water Jug
A sign of the 21st century Britain. I need a filtered water jug. I have one from Brita, which comes with instructions.
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Enhanced Privacy with Meta
There has been a viral hoax circulating, about the use of whatsapp’s new enhanced privacy features. This has been described and debunked, in the article below,
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Sidekicks in D&D 5e
Hmm, we used to call them henchmen. The rules it seems are optional, and I am not sure I am ready for this, as I need to learn to play my classes better than I do.
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A trip to Lithuania (and back)
In the words of Leroy Jenkins, let’s dooo this. I have been planning for a while, the time is now. This page relates to the trip, for my intel on Lithuania, see Vilnius. (My ambition has grown).
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Big business around the world
I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. So I looked it up, and was somewhat surprised. I then looked up the UK to see if I was equally…
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On the National Debt
I wanted to write something on the National Debt as a constraint on fiscal policy, here are my confusing notes; which I added to in the winter of 2025.
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