Prime Minsters come but always go. It’s meant to be one of the advantages of a parliamentary system but how many have we lost because they lost the confidence of the house. Here are my notes. …
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EU-UK trade & co-operation agreement
The UK Govt. and EU Commission have agreed a treaty to govern the UK’s 3rd party relationship with the EU covering trade, some programmes, security and governance. I put my first thoughts on my blog, inspired by Tom Kiblasi’s instant reaction, but I needed to go further. Here are some links and notes. …
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Home TV
I might get myself a large tv screen/monitor, but where to put it. Here are some links/ideas.
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NWN2 Monks
I started a new game, and am running a Monk, because the game, called “Bad Habits” is made for one. Here are my notes …
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Cross Cultural Management
Cross Cultural Management, is this such a thing? Here are my links and notes …
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Ode to Joy
The adopted anthem of the European Union. Here are my notes …
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W10 and a new boot disk
If buying an SSD for a deskside windows system, it is best to configure the new disk as the book disk since the SSD will then also provide the swap file location, and the location for most of the software binaries. How might one do this? Here are my notes.
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My Freezer, spare parts
About my freezer! It’s a Servis M7666W, here are my notes …
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Labour’s trade union affiliates
A note on the LP trade union affiliates, a table and chart, dated DEC 2020 …
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Army Helicopters
My planned defence piece led me to look up the British Army’s Helicopters; I think there is a joint helicopter command now, but otherwise here are my notes. Updated in 2024 …
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America’s Cup 2020-21
I thought I’d write something about the America’s cup, due to start later this month. It’s the epitome of Michael Green’s comment in Coarse Sailing, “the only sport where you don’t congratulate the winner when losing, but run into the committee room to complain and get them disqualified”. I was much more interested in the…
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The ECHR and Labour’s rules
Here is a note written by Duncan Shipley Dalton on the ECHR and how it does, and doesn’t apply to the Labour Party. …
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Unfair dismissal compensation
While defending people against unfair dismissal, we often need to understand what compensation might be won in a tribunal. The Ministry of Justice publish figures about the activity of the tribunals and one of the UK’s law firms summarise them in a blog article, listing maximum, median and mean average awards.Here are my notes …
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Fair Trial and Labour’s ‘fast track’
A note on Labour’s ‘fast track’ disciplinary process and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Labour’s disciplinary determination process for complaints that allege prejudice or harassment were changed at Conference 2019. The investigation is conducted by staff, who then present a charge and proposed sanction to a panel/sub committee of the NEC…
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Samsung S10 Tablet
Finally decided to move on from my beloved but now shit Nokia 2520. I have bought a 2nd hand Samsung T10.5. The user manual is on the web, here. At the moment, I have no notes.
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