Christmas Quiz XVIII: Errata
If you haven't already done so, click here to take my alignment survey, answering whether various real, historical and fictional individuals are good or evil, lawful or chaotic. The survey…
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Christmas Quiz XVIII is now available!
Christmas Quiz XVIII is now available! This year it is a 'letters and numbers' quiz. Clues take the form of the first letter and number of letters in each word…
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Fair and/or Progressive?
If you haven't already done so, click here to take my alignment survey, answering whether various real, historical and fictional individuals are good or evil, lawful or chaotic. The survey…
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D&D Alignment Survey
A survey to determine how consistently people interpret D&D alignments - looking at a range of fictional and historical characters. Those who play the role-playing game D&D - and even…
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The Lantern Bearer: A Personal Tribute to Nick Gibb
The first thing anyone who spends any amount of time with Nick Gibb will notice is how much he cares about teaching children to read. The second is just how…
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Whatever Happened to my Faststream Cohort?
Seventeen years ago I joined the Civil Service Fast Stream, in what was then the Department of Trade and Industry(1). I was part of a cohort of 15 of us…
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Can This Cockpit Hold The Vasty Fields of Gondor?
Recommended background music: The Tolkien Playlist. This has been a year of The Lord of the Rings, with Eldest reading it for the first time, followed by watching the films…
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Are Human Rights for Everyone?
There is a classic debate around human rights, which can be exemplified by converation below between the fictional avatars of the readers of two thinly disguised publications: Torygraph: Human rights…
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A Year of Blogging
It's now been a year since I started blogging again. During that time I've made 42 posts, levelled up this blog from a Tier 1 to a Tier 2 blog…
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A Better Reading Challenge
After several years grumbling about the lacklustre nature of the summer reading challenge in our local library(1), last year I decided to do something about it and make my own.…