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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: World Politics and Electio...

Last post by dubsartur - Today at 02:59:53 AM

With this talk about changing leaders, a biography that foreigners should probably read is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell

Electoral reform would be a very good thing and the PM could have easily implemented it during his first term.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 11:47:45 PM

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by The Seamstress - December 21, 2024, 11:23:37 PM

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 11:13:53 PM

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 10:18:38 PM

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

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Coding Medieval Worlds & MAMG / Middle Ages in Modern Games Pr...

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 07:42:39 PM

The Middle Ages in Modern Games proceedings 2024 - the first ones to have Exilian on the publication sponsors list - are now out! Including a mini-paper by yours truly on social network models in scripted RPGs.

https://issuu.com/theuniversityofwinchester/docs/mamg24_proceedings_1?fr=sNjFjNTcxMjg3NTM

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Happy Solstice!

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 07:11:07 PM

It's the shortest day! Happy Solstice, other midwinter holidays, and have a good end to the year. Whether this has been your annus mirabilis or a rough old time all round, we hope that the new year will have new things of wonder and fascination in store, and calm days in which to discover and create and care about the world. However you celebrate the end of a year, from all of us at Exilian, we wish you the best possible end to 2024.

With care and creativity,

The Exilian Team

#10

Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: World Politics and Electio...

Last post by Jubal - December 21, 2024, 06:42:32 PM

And if he thought what was good for the party or the country was different from what was good for him, he would have announced his resignation in summer 2023.

Yeah, this is so often the problem with a certain sort of politician :/


Elsewhere, it looks like Bayrou's new government in France may be doomed before it's even formed, and the potential Austrian governing parties are struggling to work out how to cut the country's deficit (the left want wealth taxes, the right do not).

Iceland has a new progressive-leaning government led by social democrat Kristrún Frostadóttir, which is aiming for an EU referendum on entry by 2027 - as noted earlier this might ultimately also poke Norway to join if it passes. The other parties are the centre-right Liberal Reform and the centre-liberal People's Party.

Ireland meanwhile looks like it's going to shift right, with right-leaning independents instead of the Green Party propping up the main FG/FF centre-right coalition bloc. I also saw reporting recently that Ireland may be hitting energy usage issues because it's gone in too heavily on AI data centres, so they may be in for a rough time if there's an AI bubble collapse in the next year or two.