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- Boris Johnston will achieve his longstanding ambition to become a former Prime Minister.
- Stock market higher at end of 2021 than at the beginning (FTSE – 6,460) but higher inflation too (most recent CHPI – 0.6%).
- No progress for those hoping for marriage equality in the Church of England.
- State based hackers turn their disruptive attention to open source software. (Watch out WordPress).
- Donald Trump will remain the centre of attention.
- There will be midnight mass in St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow next Christmas Eve. People will be wearing masks.
- A rocky year for Nicola Sturgeon but the SNP will be returned triumphant to Holyrood, despite their record.
- No vote on Scottish Independence this year but like it or not, constitutional change is a-coming.
- Attempt to repeal the Human Rights Act, removing the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from UK law. (It is a stepping stone to restoring capital punishment – the Brexiteers are not done with us yet).
- Legislation emerges in Scotland to restrict fireworks.
11 responses to “Blogroll”
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(Yeah, I’ve given up on wittering. Transpires Q, in which I wrote that thing, was too CPU-intensive for the poor wee colo-server to cope with when bots came knocking, so it had to go; it’s all-but a dead language now anyway…)
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There are easier ways to host a blog, Tim…
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Mental. On my ‘to do’ list for today was to write a ‘back blogging’ post…
Very strange!
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Think of it as the Holy Spirit, Nick.
Or alternatively think of it as synchronicity as many of the rest of us might do.
Glad you are coming back.
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David Campbell’s blog has long since moved to here:
http://limpingtowardsthesunrise.wordpress.com/-
So it does. Thanks, I’ve updated the link.
I usually read Fr David’s blog in google reader. What an exotic layout it has in real life!
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My dears, I can only wish I were as exotic in real life!
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Hope Nick starts blogging again too! He did a post reviewing The Dark Knight once, which is more down-wit’-da-kidz than highfalutin’ praepostorial theatre reviews 😉 (that said, do hope you do The Habit of Art! :-))
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I did Figaro.
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Thanks Kelvin, I’ll have a look at the rss thing – it’s all a bit new to me still!
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Thanks John – you’ve already got a nicely behaving rss feed for your content but I can’t find one for comments.
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