Just did Morning Ireland with my new phone mic and headset rigup.

I hope it helped deliver the message that the Gardaí have no legal basis for opening files on people unconnected with any crime, and keeping family photos of their children. The police themselves couldn’t cite any applicable legal basis.

Having recited a series of legal powers which applied to the investigation of powers, they could only say they had a ‘rationale’ for keeping these permanent files.

The dumb fox is wrong about many small things but the stupid hedgehog is wrong about one big thing

The Tory party has always been a dumb fox.

Since 2016 it has chosen its leaders according to a simple metric- were they the stupidest hedgehog? Brexit has been the giant stupid thing every hedgehog Tory leader had to say the stupidest thing about.

Whoever would deny reality most brazenly won each leadership competition.

So the party bred fantasists, by evolutionary pressure.

I was reminded by a Google search this evening that in 2006 I put three TV scripts for a kids mixed live action/stop motion series up on the Internet Archive with a Creative Commons licence.

Hugh’s Adventures.

archive.org/details/@tupp01 If you’ve got an animation project to complete but you need a script, well, you know where to find one now.

You can have Universal Monster Movie (Caveman Hugh), Chandler PI noir (Hugh PI) or Biblical Epic (Hugh Exodus).

Sinn Féin is blessed with the quality of its enemies. The party remains the most likely to lead the next government, and yet the questions asked of it are about matters irrelevant to the majority of voters.

It’s all culture war (and sometimes just class war) stuff instead of a focus on people and policy.

My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network.

We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems. First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.