Looks like ‘Nuclear Warfare as a Service’ or NWaaS.

I haven’t heard that in years. Yes it’s a great recording, incredible sense of space. Along with Who Knows where the Time Goes…

Well, my village school had an Empire Day celebration in 1961 or 1962, but none the following year. But the news was slow reaching the provinces, as the last official Empire Day was 1958.

1814 I think… Admiral Cockburn sailed up the Potomac and helped remodel the White House, although we’ll try not to burn it down this time.

A little later but Somerset House housed the Admiralty from 18th Century. Plenty of offices and, yes, meeting rooms.
Lloyd’s London from late 17thC

For all practical Coalitions, SNP and PC hold the balance of power. Indyref will be a condition of support.
The bad news is that we’ll have 3 years of interviewers asking RFM and CON if they will enter into a coalition.
What a lot of 3rd Rail issues in a single election…

Questions… what fraction of 10 peoples wages will AI cost in the long run? Does business have demand for outputs x10.?

History suggests that given large deployable inputs and resource , 1 or 2 businesses will rapidly dominate, fix prices and all competition dies.

We boomers created the Internet and indulgently let the children play with it. The kids have got over excited though.

Time we take the batteries out of of the routers, and make everyone go back to fax and landlines .

Just a guess, but a joint advertising promotion with NCB Scotland (Corstorphine)?

Go back to 1980. Women had limited maternity rights which made planning hard. Little job protection. Fewer higher education opportunities. A wife’s income was aggregated with her husband. A lower stamp (NI) for lower pension & expectation that husband would make up difference. Very hard to plan.

I now realise that the Tariff spelling is seasonal. If there is an ‘r’ in the month then it’s Tarriff, except February when there’s only 1 ‘f’, thus Tarrif .

Welcome

Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati

[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.

To cite some examples:

- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence

ecfr.eu/publication/...

Is that a killer squirrel or a killer virus? I don’t want to meet a deadly squirrel.

Tourist tax starts in Edinburgh July 2026 at 5% (unless it has changed yet again).
Paid around 7% in Berlin last week.
Can’t be controversial anymore?

Royal Festival Hall - Wikipedia

South Bank has had heat pump using the Thames since late 1940s. See Heating Systems in Wiki article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_F...

Great work. Strathconon uses FRS 102 1A small business reporting but S1A balance sheet limit is £5m (against £30m in 2024 accounts).

Also heritable assets depreciated at 4%, so a £750k charge for 2024. I thought land couldn’t be depreciated? And why no tax statement?

Not so small really.

Bergen, Norway, in evening light.

Bergen - International Grieg Society Conference. Delighted to have completed my first committee work for the Styre (Board) of the Society. International Cultural Cooperation is more important than ever in these times. #classicalmusic

Yep, I’m feeling smug. You can, too…

Palo Mino is the village in the valley below Palo Alto

The cost of the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent Since the acquisition of the UK's first strategic nuclear deterrent in the 1950s, the cost of procuring and maintaining it, and which Government department should finance it, has always been debated.

Not really. The UK govt has the ultimate authority here and generally does what it likes on retained matters.
A more mature debate with the public would instead consider how the nuclear deterrence is to be funded and whether SSBNs will ever be built.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

What the paparazzi did to get bedroom shots before the invention of the Zoom lens.

Defence is not devolved, so can’t see how Holyrood can be a threat to ‘our security’.

Actually I think the first was a project by Microsoft in Orkney, Scotland.

Somewhat revealing POV from The Economist here.

Amazing, I never heard this at the time. I still love ‘O Caroline’.

It used to be a nice ordinary hotel for nice ordinary people to stop at when visiting Deeside. Now it doesn’t feel welcoming anymore to an ordinary Joe like me. Shame the owners bought the other hotel in Braemar and then a bunch of guest houses for their staff. Keep driving to Ballater…

May be Goldbergs? I lived in Valleyfield Street, known as dog-crap alley being just short of the links.

Interior of the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen, with organ pipes and piano framed by atmospheric stage lighting.

Bubblyjock Collective and Dr Sally Garden backstage at the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen.

Good to be back on the platform of Aberdeen's wonderful Cowdray Hall, and great to assist the brilliant Bubblyjock Collective with my pre-concert talk on opera singer and 'granite city' quine extraordinaire, Mary Garden.

Also switch off your WiFi when outside if you don’t want to be tracked.