Go a phone call late afternoon off my mate Greg to see if I fancied spinning some vinyl up at the Rogiet Rave which is just the next village up from Caldicot. There’s been a few of these go off
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Month: June 2023
Ben The Hat @ Hive Mind Brewery / Wye Valley Meadery, Caldicot 24.06.2023
Hive Mind Brewery / Wye Valley Meadery is a new venue to me in Caldicot. It is located on the Severnbridge Industrial Estate, not far from the back entrance to Caldicot Castle, near the Mitel Roundabout. It is open as
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Sluggish Schizophrenia
I got (mis)diagnosed with Schizophrenia on 02.04.1997 and I’ve had 26 years of hell in the mental health system here in South Wales ever since. Initially the psychiatrist said it was ‘mild schizophrenia’ whatever that is. I have had over
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Cisco Event @ Sunborn Yacht, Infosecurity Europe 2023, ExCel, London with DJ Phoebe D’Abo 21.06.2023
Cisco are a big player in the tech world. They are an American-based global company with over 70 000 employees. They rank 74 in the Fortune 100 and have an annual turnover in excess of $50 billion. In my Masterschool
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Cisco Event @ Sunborn Yacht, Infosecurity Europe 2023, ExCel, London with DJ Phoebe D’Abo 21.06.2023
Cisco are a big player in the tech world. They are an American-based global company with over 70 000 employees. They rank 74 in the Fortune 100 and have an annual turnover in excess of $50 billion. In my Masterschool
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Chatham House: How Effective Are The United States’ Sanctions? 19.06.2023
Chatham House is the Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs. It is based in St. James’ Square, Mayfair, London, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. I have been a member of Chatham House for several months but with me being based
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Review: Before Bletchley Park – The Codebreakers of The First World War – by Paul Gannon
I have previously read a lot of material on World War 2 codebreakers and the likes of Alan Turing and their critical work against Enigma and the invention of modern computing during that period. Of course, codebreaking and cryptography is
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Review: Before Bletchley Park – The Codebreakers of The First World War – by Paul Gannon
I have previously read a lot of material on World War 2 codebreakers and the likes of Alan Turing and their critical work against Enigma and the invention of modern computing during that period. Of course, codebreaking and cryptography is
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Guerrilla Heroico
The Cuban Revolution was an earth-shattering event with huge consequences internationally, not just in Latin America, but further afield. I felt the impact myself whilst travelling across Scandinavia in 2005. I’d run out of clean underwear and, while scanning the
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Review: Queens of the Crusades – by Alison Weir
I had previously read Alison Weir’s most excellent book specifically on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine many years ago so the author was familiar to me. I chanced upon this title in my local library (Caldicot) and thought I’d give it
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Riposa In Pace Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi has died today at the age of 86. It has been said that not a day has gone by in Italian news media over the past 50 years without him making headlines of some sort. He certainly was
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Echo 24th Birthday Boat Party, Golden Jubilee, River Thames, London, 10.06.2023
My good old mate, Dominic, invited me down to London for yet another Echo Boat Party. This one celebrating the 24th birthday of Echo. I was actually one of the original four founding business partners of Echo. We started off
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Defending Against Cyber Attacks
I have had a long academic relationship with Cardiff University which is the best ‘local’ university here in Wales. For over 15 years I’ve been honing my foreign language skills at this centre for academic excellence with https://dragontranslate.co.uk being a
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Revolut – The Bank that Preys on the Sick and Disabled
I’ve always hated banks. I’ve hated them for a long time, since before I was ever introduced to the mental health system. My experiences over the years have pretty much always been negative. They are just corporate thieves, organised crime.
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Guy Ritchie’s – The Covenant
I just finished watching this film, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, which is out now on Amazon Prime. The film is about a US Army Special Forces Sergeant, John Kinley (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who, in the Afghanistan War, end up
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Nomad – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion #LivePA Mikee Freedom – Dare To Club, Bristol 04.06.2023
I was attending Bristol DJ Tristan B’s 60th birthday in Bristol and Mikee Freedom did this amazing Live PA of Nomad – Devotion. I’ve included the original 1991 music video below for you to compare versions. He’s pretty good old
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The Nuremburg Code 1947
At the end of World War 2, after, in particular, the disaster of the Holocaust becoming apparent, many leading Nazis were hunted down and brought to trial to face justice for war crimes. One of the main international trials, indeed
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Erdoğan’s Third Term as President of Turkey and What It Means
On May 28th 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was giving a victory speech to the excited Turkish masses, who had democratically elected him to a third term as President of Turkey. He achieved 52.2% of the vote in the second round
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Mental Health Peer Mentor
First of all, I’d like to apologise for the lack of recent posts on End Of Terror. There have been a number of reasons for this and I do plan on posting about these reasons when time allows. The website
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