2019
On April 19th last year, I was confessing to my addiction to piling up books not all of which I got round to reading. I learned two new words: bibliotaph and tsundoku.
2018
Welsh independence movements seemed to be springing up all over the place, recalling the Judaean insurgents in The Life of Brian.
2017
Metal theft, like that from Network Rail property, was still a concern.
2016
Electrical work on the Great Western main line extension to Swansea was on budget and on time, whatever the failings in other areas of the modernisation.
2015
Postings were naturally concerned with the upcoming general election (at which the Liberal Democrats were to be punished for blindly following Nick Clegg down the path of increased cuts to the income of people who could bear them least). I re-posted a table showing that the party was second only to the Green Party in its manifesto commitment to the environment (this must still be true today). I also lent support to Ed Goncalves' campaign in Rugby, majoring on an attack on the expenses culture in Westminster (sadly the election literature is no longer accessible). Ed seems not to be active on the party political front now, but I guess he is the man who founded the campaign to ban trophy hunting.
2014
One posting was on a frequent theme of mine, that the Labour Party is more concerned about eliminating liberalism in the country than in attacking Toryism. The other reminds us that even the Obama regime danced to Saudi Arabia's (and Israel's) tune over Iran.2013
There was nothing on Friday 19th, but the next day remembered the conductor Colin Davis.2012
Jack Tramiel deserves a place in computing history, though he was no saint.I trust that Wrexham council's housing department still makes use of the Nissan Leaf electric saloons acquired when the council was led by Liberal Democrats.
2011
This day's posting drew attention to one of Mark Pack's heroes, the education pioneer H.A.L. Fisher whose work in Lloyd George's coalition government anticipated R.A. Butler's in 1944, only post-Great War austerity delaying much-needed reform.
2010
Another posting about Labour attacking Liberal Democrats for Labour's own failings.I see also that Neath Ales was founded round about this time. I hope they survive the next decade also. Their Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/Neath-Ales-157012067662548/.
2009
A tongue-in-cheek instance of my obsession with Mercury Theatre actors and the dirty tricks of the Labour Party.
2008
In the run-up to a historic Westminster election, there was an attack on the Plaid/Labour coalition in Cardiff going back (not for the first time) on an election pledge. Then there was a hardy perennial (sorry!) calling for more allotments to be made available.
Before that, there was a short but sincere appreciation of Gwyneth Dunwoody who had just died.
2007
Before I had my own, I used to contribute to the local party's blog. This was one of mine from 18th April, on the subject of green (or not) campaigning.
2006
I did not blog before winter in 2006, but I found this from CIX on 18th April:
"Land of the twitching curtain"
BBC Radio Wales is two-thirds of the way through a Milgram-type connection
experiment. The target is a church minister in Caerffili (just north of
Cardiff) and the source letters were distributed throughout Wales.
Not relevant to movie_trivia, but the results (due next week) should be
interesting. I would expect the average degree of connectedness to be one
less than the Milgram original, because his target was in a distant state
(Nebraska IIRC).
The result? The following week saw this posting:
The final figure for the BBC-Wales experiment was an astonishing 3.2
degrees of separation. (To put this in perspective, when Milgram conducted
his experiment within the city of Boston, he achieved 4.4 degrees.)
The choice of target - a non-conformist minister - may have influenced the
result. There could be a greater degree of connectedness within the church
community in Wales.
A worrying feature is that a large number of packages went missing.
2005
19th April saw this dig at New Labour:
I'm saying that (apart from the tax credits and a few other
odds-and-ends) Labour has not been more redistributive than the Major
government.
There was a one-off act of redistribution by Michael Heseltine, when he
accompanied the introduction of council tax with large grants to councils.
2004
A posting on CIX, pointing out a practical loophole in the secret ballot:
It is not easy to find out how an individual voted, but finding all
the voters for a particular ticket, especially a non-mainstream one
like the Socialist Workers Party or the Democratic Left, is another
matter. The bundles of ballot papers (which are in party order after
the count) are usually just gathered up, as they are finished with,
put in sacks and stored in the town/county hall basement.
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