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2025
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This is fine
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Refreshing my Game Boy cartridge collection
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Mini Motorways
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The digital identity and attribute services register is now in public beta
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Manifesting
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Euphoria!
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UK and Ireland Tour 2025
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How novel!
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Making Game Boy screenshots on my blog beautiful, with SVGs
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STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor
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3 week’s worth of notes
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Redeveloping my love of LEGO
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Have we built a faster horse?
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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It’s pronounced ‘Jod’
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How we’re maintaining a trustworthy register of digital identity services
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Speechless
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No rest for the wicked
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Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
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Back into gear
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Carrion
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The Plucky Squire
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Week #1
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Certification: independent assurance that the rules are being followed
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Lynn and Tonic
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Setting some goals for 2025
2024
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My games of the year
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Reviewing my progress against my 2024 goals
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Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
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Bloodborne
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Yearnote
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Stranger Things
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Announcing the gamma (0.4) trust framework
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Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024)
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Monitoring inclusion in the digital identity market
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What we mean when we say “digital identity and attributes”
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Ratchet & Clank
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Control
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
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Monthnote?
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Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
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Sharing music on my blog
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Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
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Sharing games I’ve played on my blog
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It’s alive!
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So close you can almost taste it
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Moving my website from Jekyll to Eleventy
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inFAMOUS First Light
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Weeks notes
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inFAMOUS Second Son
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STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
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I regret to inform you there is a new PowerPoint template
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Elden Ring
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The dam bursts
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Music gets the best of me
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30 times easier
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Friendly. But socially awkward.
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More LGBT+ MPs than ever before
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Everything old is new again
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Extreme vibe shift
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Unmute
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Help me to update the list of LGBT+ MPs
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3 weeks. 3 things.
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We’ll sell 25 million PS5 consoles, no 21M, actually 20.8M.
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Why Did the Eurovision Song Contest Look Odd This Year?
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Send me a (Web)mention
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Chitting the chat
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Mario meets Pareto
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Infinite diversity in infinite combinations
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I listened to every Eurovision 2024 entry, so you don’t have to
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Finding out how I make decisions
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Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2024
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Parliament and Government should be in the fediverse
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A long and winding road(map)
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One week. One note. One thing.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: ‘It’s mind-blowing how it inspired me’
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Doing Weeknotes
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Open policy making meets agile comms
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An ‘Ideas’ page.
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Now.
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Push the button
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Own Your Web – Issue 10: Links Worth Sharing
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Olly Alexander - Dizzy
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Policy by vibes
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Broadcasting my philosophies at work
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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
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Life stack
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Corporate training needs content design
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Books to read in 2024
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Please, Expose your RSS
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Setting some goals for 2024
2023
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Horizon Zero Dawn
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage Was Juuusssttt Right
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Reviewing my progress against my 2023 goals
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Things that went right in 2023
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Astro’s Playroom
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Recipes are broken
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What if... Post-It notes?
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Stoutie
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That! Feels! Good!
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Making “Webmentions” look more conversational
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Cocoon
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A decade of public service
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
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Into the Fediverse
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A parts bin iPod Classic
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I listened to every Eurovision 2023 entry, so you don’t have to
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Calculating the cost of my subscriptions
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Setting some goals for 2023
2022
2021
2020
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Setting some goals for 2021
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Reviewing my progress against my 2020 goals
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Birthday cake
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NES frame
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Cocoa
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I want that one
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No egrets
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Building a Twitter bot for the ‘Department of Administrative Affairs’
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I listened to every defunct Eurovision 2020 entry, so you don’t have to
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How to be a better communicator when your team is working remotely
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How to hold better video and telephone conference calls
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Doors should not need instructions
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Why I made a dataset of LGBT MPs
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On the occasion of my death, do this with my digital footprint
2019
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Setting some goals for 2020
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Reviewing my progress against my 2019 goals
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Apple’s peculiar typographic choices
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Cooper
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He’s a good boy
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Olafur Eliasson
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Being an LGBT+ ally should feel uncomfortable
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Pretty in pink
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A city of contrasts
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Trying out the new Citymapper Pass
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Life in rainbow colours
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Pride at Number 10
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Creating a scoreboard for my Eurovision house party
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Yawn
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What are you looking at?
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Leaping lizards!
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I listened to every Eurovision 2019 entry, so you don’t have to
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I’ve fallen in love with a USB connector
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Golden Falls
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The Great Geysir
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The Blue Lagoon
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Above the clouds
2018
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Setting some goals for 2019
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Goodbye Facebook
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I’m going to fail at nearly all my goals for 2018
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#LGBTsurvey: things that didn’t surprise me
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#LGBTsurvey: things that surprised me
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Living with Apple Watch Series 4
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Fireworks at Ally Pally
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I lied to my hairdresser
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#LGBTsurvey: why it’s important
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How TfL keeps screwing me for delay refunds
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Peacock
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Ahoy
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On European city taxes and tourism
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Zurich
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I can see a rainbow
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Love shine a light
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Through the gates
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I listened to every Eurovision 2018 entry, so you don’t have to
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May the best drag queen win
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Designed by God
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Diorama
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Hey Siri, bring the beat in.
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“Opening up”
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The most broken junctions in Westminster
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Theme Hospital and gender equality
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What do you call a collective of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people?
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Facebook’s ridiculous plan to crowdsource news trustworthiness
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Setting goals I might stick to for 2018
2017
2016
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Caffeine
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Fireworks at Battersea
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A 21st century health service: fax machines, print outs and misinformation
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What happened when my blog post went viral
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To my heterosexual friends: this is why Orlando hurts
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A week abroad with Revolut
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A year with Apple Watch
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In flight
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If data isn’t actionable, it’s not useful
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I listened to every Eurovision 2016 entry, so you don’t have to
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One week with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
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Text mining tweets from the 2016 BRIT Awards
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You’re queuing it wrong
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I couldn’t be more happy being out where I work
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Surviving a week with Apple Pay
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How will the functional model affect Civil Service diversity networks?
2015
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Apple TV - the revolution is coming, probably
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Two weeks with Apple Watch
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Who would win Eurovision if population size mattered?
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I listened to every Eurovision 2015 entry, so you don’t have to
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Text mining tweets from the 2015 BAFTAs
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Your privacy is not the enemy
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Quantified Self: analysing my Twitter data using the R statistical package
2014
2013
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How do appointment processes affect the policy outputs of monetary policy committees?
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What factors have contributed to the spread of ‘liberal economic institutions’ cross-nationally?
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Why does central bank independence vary across countries and over time?
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What factors explain the decision to dissolve the Financial Services Authority?