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nwhyte

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He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; #APCOWorldwide, toots personal. Will block rude people and bigots. https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu

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Sinn Fein to step aside in number of key constituencies in NI https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/sinn-fein-to-step-aside-in-number-of-key-constituencies-in-ni/a1287853347.html

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Great headline.

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Darn it! I thought I would have another couple of months to get the projected results for the new Northern Ireland constituencies onto the website...

http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections (but check it in a couple of hours, give me a chance)

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For the time being you can see mycalculations here:
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-new-northern-ireland-constituencies/

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These photographs of the Milky Way are amazing.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year-2024-in-pictures

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I was in a work meeting about this time yesterday when my phone rang with an unfamiliar number, 0499 38 65 08. I excused myself, stepped out of the meeting and answered it. An automated message told me that a suspicious transaction of 2600 euro had been registered on my credit card; if that is OK, press 9, if not press 1.

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It was definitely not OK, so I pressed 1, and got through to a human being who explained to me a suspicious transaction had been registered on my credit card; could he have my bank details please?

"Hang on, I don't know who you are," I said.

He ended the call immediately.

But how many people, harassed and hassled at the end of the working day, will give him their details and find a few hours or minutes later that their bank account is mysteriously empty?

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26 April 1910, 1986, 2005
I don't feel especially old, just slightly unfit and middle-aged as usual.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/26-april-1910-1986-2005/

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Delighted to start my birthday with a clip of 18-year-old me in the middle of the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra’s percussionists, playing Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade at a concert in the Ulster Hall in 1985. Full video posted on Facebook.

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My talk from last night on the electoral history of Belfast - not just the last century, but starting in 1613...

https://sluggerotoole.com/2024/04/23/pushing-boundaries-a-century-of-change-in-the-politics-of-belfast/

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My anatomical peculiarities
Sliding hiatal hernia, pig bronchus, supernumerary renal arteries, dolichocolon, leg length discrepancy
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/my-anatomical-peculiarities/

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Flying across the Atlantic in 1952 (and Spurs beat Chelsea in 1950)
The price of an air ticket from New York to London in 1952 was $395 single, $711 return.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/flying-across-the-atlantic-in-1952-and-spurs-beat-chelsea-in-1950/

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The second paragraph of the third chapter
It is ten years ago this month that I first posted what has now become a regular habit - the second paragraph of the third chapter of every book that I read. (which needs a bit of wiggle room for comics, plays and most poetry.) I have found that it often gives a brief (sometimes not so brief) flavour of the book as a whole, and of course it proves that I did read beyond the first two chap
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/__trashed/

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😲😲😲

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68686691

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What have fourteen years of Conservative rule done to Britain?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain

Nothing good, as explained here at length.

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The trend in legislation is definitely going one way and not the other.

https://www.politico.eu/article/cannabis-possession-cultivation-legal-germany-april/

Cannabis will be legal in Germany within days

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Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
Most people seem to like this book much more than I did.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/notes-from-the-burning-age-by-claire-north/

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The Hugos and me
As a Hugo administrator in the past, my own record is clear.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-hugos-and-me/

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The Meeping Angel.

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Monday reading
Last book finished: Lizard Radio, by Pat Schmatz
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/monday-reading-56/

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The new Northern Ireland constituencies
The boundary changes in Northern Ireland are the least dramatic since the 1970s.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-new-northern-ireland-constituencies/

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Very sad news. Christopher Priest has died.

https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855

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Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922
I was pleasantly surprised by just how much I learned from this book.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/fatal-path-british-government-and-irish-revolution-1910-1922/

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Happy 90th birthday, Tom Baker!

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Thrasher and Rallings’ analysis of the impact of the new constituency boundaries on the next U.K. election is out. I did the Northern Ireland bit of it (which I admit is less interesting than England, Scotland and Wales this time).

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67361138

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