20th May, 2026: about Blu-ray Discs …
Yes: it’s officially, finally, done!
I’ve made a video: about copying blu-rays.
Quite how relevant it is, these days?
Especially given how streaming is more common, and given how the market for blu-ray drives is slowly shrinking?
I don’t know.
But … ?
It feels good to get the thing out of my system.
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Apparently?
The Scottish National Party announced an idea, last month: to introduce a mandatory price-freeze on essential groceries.
Which sounds like a good idea: although one that retail organisations will oppose.
Yesterday?
The Treasury announced a similar scheme: although theirs, unlike the SNP’s plan, is a voluntary freeze.
Retail organisations oppose the Government one, as well.
Personally?
I hope something like it goes through: although I feel a mandatory one will have more results than a voluntary one.
We’ll have to see how it goes.
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Do you remember that the UK had a referendum, a few years ago?
No, not the Brexit one: the one about introducing Proportional Representation, back in 2011?
The one that was eventually, rejected?
Yeah: that one!
There’s been nothing in the news about another referenda on PR, recently.
However?
It seems some sixty odd Labour MPs have called for an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill that’s currently going through Parliament: an amendment that calls for a commission to examine the subject, if nothing else.
I can’t help but think two things.
One … ?
That an actual change to the system — rather than just an enquiry that would take years — would be preferred.
And two … ?
I think those MPs are more worried about Reform doing well at a General Election, than they are about a fair democracy … !
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