For various reasons I had a look at alternative themes. I am currently using one called minnow, or on this wiki which I believe is no longer supported. In particular I find it frustrating that the social media menu does not display the platform icons, except for twitter. Otherwise I find it quite cool. I…
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I finally bit the bullet, here’s the manual, here’s the app location.
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Class Wargames decided to play W40K which set me thinking. About boardgames and DnD again. Boardgames The W40K stuff took me towards the Battle of Actium. I found two games on Board Game Geek, and added them to my collection. One has probably gone, the other, Trireme seems available on the market, although the rules…
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I was looking at a piece of project work, considering the next Commission of EU . It seems that either part of VdL’s manifesto for the 24/29 programme or her letters to Commissioner designates contains the sentence as follows, “We will build on the Conference on the Future of Europe to instil a true and…
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The Commonwealth of Britain bill [ wikipedia | parliament ] was raised at the Chartist Conference yesterday and oddly I was notified tody of a conference on his legacy for next year. I mentioned him and his decline into parliamentary cretinism in my review of Simon Hannah’s book. The wikipedia page lists the reforms, which…
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This is a notes page. I think the EU has instigated six infringement processes against the UK. Several, maybe the majority of these relate to the “Internal Market Bill”, and maybe the “Windsor Framework”. From memory I believe the Commission is also in dispute with HMG over the treatment of EU citizen’s resident in the…
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Starmer met Ursula Von Der Leyen in Brussels yesterday. It seems they couldn’t agree on what to say. Here are my notes and links …
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Euronews reports a split in the European left group in the new European Parliament, this is followed up by some further reporting. I have not yet finished my reading, but this does not seem particularly strategic or even political. The left beyond the Social Democrats was pretty spit anyway between an independent presence, the European…
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Here is my #lab 24 page. Conference is to be in Liverpool again.
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Over the last two years I have visited a number of art galleries and admired some specific impressionist paintings, Here are a few from Berlin’s Neues Museum, the National Museum of Wales, the Musee D’Orsay and the National Museum of Catlan Art (MNAC) in Barcelona.
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Here we go, I have them on a todo list, albeit on a hidden page, but I need to record the links somewhere …
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I had some interest in the ECR after the European Parliament elections, as they became the third largest party, and so made this page. The group was jointly founded by the British Tories as they build their off-ramp to Brexit and left the EPP. The parliamentary group is constructed for each parliament; in the 10th…
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James Meadway brought David Graeber’s work to my attention in a long article which I have annotated on diigo. The article pointed me at some further reading, most interestingly for me, he posits that the Silicon revolution changes the way power is exercised and at the end references Kate Pistor’s advocacy of Data Trusts. Here…
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