Adam Watson Brown

The owner has spent some money to get a D.
Protected so not really subject to full rigour of PEB anyway.

Mistakes were made like preventing the expansion of Birmingham in the sixties. @tomforth.co.uk is eloquent on the late arrival of universities in the north.
Many uncomplimentary things have been written about German Laender banks, but they were a source of local capital for the Mittelstand.

Not much traction over on X for their objections to DSA and DMA, so far.

Saint Jerome’s lion has moved house.

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion on receiving the Nobel Prize in economics.

A proud moment for Europe and a strong reminder that innovation and openness are the foundations of our shared prosperity.

Philippe’s contributions helped shape Mario Draghi’s vision for European competitiveness.

But better than just depending on the Mac, which itself has an SSD.

I still think a solid state drive would be a good idea to increase your chances that your work doesn’t disappear.

Almost all UK political groups want a rewind button to go back into the past. Blue Labour wants a return to 1962 before all the university nonsense; Farage maybe 1952.
The Future is too challenging for political comms folk and rage farmers

ChatGPT - Backup solutions for Mac Shared via ChatGPT

Back-up on a sailing boat is somewhat complex but doable:

chatgpt.com/share/68eace...

I’ll research further.

So called ruggedised solid state drives would survive, I read, but best to ask another sailor.

How long did the bar exist? It probably looked old fashioned by 1919.

Somebody I was at school with lost a complete book manuscript when his writing shed burned down: no back up. Always back up.

I'm looking forward for the exceptionalists telling us the UK should be exempt from steel tariffs because:
- It used to be a member
- their steel standards are the highest in the world
- We need British steel
- They're part-time residents (unregistered) in Spain

The PEB folk are Torquemadists of the first order. It’s the Audit Society on steroids.

Energy certificate scoring may already be chilling prices. I have no evidence for that, except that one quite pleasant Art Deco house hasn’t shifted in my street, despite a price cut. It has a bottom rung energy score

Hungary found to have sent agents to spy on EU — report – DW – 10/09/2025 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban secretly sent agents to spy on European Union institutions in Brussels for years, according to a report published by a Belgian newspaper.

Wow. Whereas Orbán treats Hungarian critical journalists and human rights organisations as ‘foreign agents’, he is now accused of Russian-style espionage within the EU.

Under the leadership of Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi.

If true, heavy measures must follow.

www.dw.com/en/hungary-f...

Des primes de travaux 'Rénolution' menacées, près de 2500 dossiers vont-ils pouvoir être payés ? - RTBF Actus Rénolution, c’est aujourd’hui un système de 45 primes, que la Région bruxelloise avait lancé en 2022 pour pousser...

I renovated my home in Brussels last year. I was let down by every single actor involved in the process, public and private, administration and contractors. Incompetence and idiotic bureaucracy. They cost me weeks and a lot of money. Now this. I would never do it again.

www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

The Brussels Region can still impose fines after (?) 2035 on those owners failing to meet the minimum score in the PEB infernal machine.
Will we see a less messaianic PEB when new BRUgovt appears?

It did improve at one point, per a friend. he told me chez Vincent has improved. I might try it again as the tiles are nice viewing.

There are two rooms, one Art Deco, but I haven’t seen it since they served me and friends a very bad and expensive dinner; and another adjoining room.

Was that the entrepreneur? I was thinking of the Socialist Party, as owner.

Socialist property developers, don’tcha hate ‘em even more than the capitalist ones.

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Short term purchases of US def kit may be OK, depending on what it is and lifetime.

SNCF : gare aux escroqueries en ligne Grâce à un faux site presque identique à celui de la SNCF, des escrocs proposent un dédommagement suite aux récentes perturbations, dans le but de soutirer de l'argent à leurs victimes. Une méthode ég...

This is darkly funny

SNCF has such a thicket of confusing websites that crooks were able to create a fake one to dupe customers

Link via @pglux.bsky.social

www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers...

The barbed wire hasn’t rusted so it must have been treated with some brilliant product at the time.
Or it has been replaced regularly.

The walls are closing in.

The problem is greater than the minds of politicians can encompass. So both left and right travel back in time, further into their comfort zones.

Perhaps no one has a competing vision to Blue Labour: Brideshead Revisited for LAB.