Category: Aside
This category, Aside, was originally called ‘Asides’ at nevillehobson.fyi, a project I started during the Covid pandemic in 2020, to write about topics I didn’t usually cover on my primary site, nevillehobson.com. In June 2024, after deciding that maintaining two separate sites wasn’t a feasible option any longer, I blended the content into the primary site under this category. The original .fyi site now redirects to this page.
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Clash of the Would-Be Next PMs in First TV Election Debate
On the night of 4 June, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer faced off in the first televised debate of the 2024 UK general election campaign. My wife and I watched it, broadcast live on ITV.…
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Can Labour End the Tory Reign?
The forthcoming UK general election on 4 July, announced by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 22 May (outside No 10 Downing Street, in the pouring rain), will be a pivotal moment in UK politics. According to opinion polls, Labour…
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Looking Through Windows
There’s something uniquely nostalgic about rummaging through old boxes. It’s like flipping through pages of a dusty photo album, where each item stirs a long-forgotten memory. Yesterday, as I delved into boxes at the back of my garage, trying to…
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Creating a Unified Voice
When I started this blog in 2020, I intended it as a companion site to my main blog, a sandbox to write about wider-ranging topics and my experiments with WordPress themes not quite fit for the main stage. This site…
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To Spring Forward or Not, That Is the Question
In the small hours of this Sunday, 31 March, across the United Kingdom and the European mainland, an age-old ritual unfolded almost magically. In unison at 1 a.m. GMT/UTC, as if by the command of Chronos himself, we have “sprung…