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Watching MidAmeriCon from a distance
So as not to break with something of a tradition of a number of years' standing, I have set up a temporary public friends group of LJers attending MidAmeriCon ( Read more... ) -
Some post-referendum thoughts
Last Thursday, apparently, 72% of the UK electorate voted by rather under 17 and a half million to rather over 16 million voters that about 5 million other people currently usually resident in the UK were not welcome to be so. This was democracy - at least if you accept that the demos is to be defined by citizenship rather than residency. Of course ( Read more... ) -
Tomorrow's EU referendum
I will be voting Remain tomorrow and, if you are British, have a vote in the referendum and have any doubt about which way you should vote, you should do so too.
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Merry Christmas....
(or acceptable substitute) and Happy New Year (or acceptable substitute) to all my friends (and anyone else reading here).
My comments on this year to follow in a few days (or not as the case may be). -
Watching Sasquan from a distance
Continuing with what has become something of a tradition for quite a few years now, I have set up a temporary public friends group of LJers attending Sasquan ( Read more... ) -
How I voted on the Hugo ballot
I usually do another LJ post at this time of year, and it will be following this one very shortly - but, unlike most years, this year's Worldcon, by no apparent fault of the organisers, seems to be rather politically charged, to the extent that this will undoubtedly be reflected in commentary on it. So I am making this rather belated post about how ( Read more... ) -
You don't want the SNP controlling the next British government? Then (probably) vote Labour
During the last few days, the Conservative campaign in the current British general election has been busy raising the apparently awful spectre of the result being a British government controlled from behind the scenes by the Scottish National Party - and calling on voters to support the Conservatives to stop this happening. Unfortunately for them, ( Read more... ) -
The debating politicians problem
The schedule for Thursday's seven-way debate in the current UK general election campaign looks suspiciously like a solution grid for a certain type of logic puzzle. So, while I'm not willing to time-waste to the point of reverse-engineering the whole thing, here's a possible start ( Read more... ) -
Best wishes...
for the current holiday period (appropriate name left for the reader to decide upon) and the year to come (exact appropriate period also left for the reader to decide upon - though I'd tend to assume that its length approximates to the time taken by the local planet to orbit the local sun).