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Based on my two-minute walk to the polling station and thirty seconds there, I predict a very high turnout. #ge2017
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General Election: Vote!
TL; DR: Vote Against the Tories
This is long, and I’ll understand if you don’t want to read it. So, a summary.
The election should never have been called; Labour should have resisted it when it was. But now that it’s here we need to take advantage of it to protect the NHS. And maybe hold out some hope for stopping, or at least softening, Brexit. ( Read more... ) -
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Pleased to see that Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning, which I’ve spoken of before here appears to have a British publisher at last. Amazon is showing it available from 1st July. I’ve preordered.
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Right Wing Pirates to Plague the Med
This is a disgrace on humanity:
Far-right activists are planning a sea campaign this summer to disrupt vessels saving refugees in the Mediterranean, after successfully intercepting a rescue mission last month.
Members of the anti-Islam and anti-immigrant “Identitarian” movement - largely twentysomethings often described as Europe’s answer to ( Read more... ) -
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Amusing to see that covfefe.com redirects to Teespring.
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Extreme Pyramid Scheme
I didn’t intend to discuss these two episodes of Doctor Who together, but watching the first was delayed because I was in Scotland when the first one was on. And I didn’t realise they were a two-parter.
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Disturbing to see a Chinook hovering over the City as I approach Liverpool Street.
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I like the Spark iOS email client, and the new drag & drop between it and the Documents app is great. But it can never be my full-time client until it lets me order the mail properly (oldest to newest, that is).
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Losing the War on Terror
The front page of today’s Guardian has a picture of what it looks like when you let the terrorists win:
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I’ve never installed Google Maps on my iPhone before. So how, on first launching it just now (after reading this excellent article) can it be logged in as me?
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