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  Now that the dust has settled on the election result, it’s worth taking some time to reflect on what the 2024 UK General Election results actually tell us about the way the electorate feel about politics in general, and the individual parties in particular. Although by polling day a change of government was pretty much a foregone conclusion, and we’re all no doubt relieved that the electioneering is finally all over, a look at the results may give us some valuable indicators as to what we should expect to happen in the next 10 years or so. First, let’s take a look at the overall voting statistics for each major party, and compare these with the results for 2019: UK General Elections: 2019 vs 2024 2019 2019 2024 2024   Party %Votes cast Seats won %Votes cast Seats won Conservative 43.6 365 23.7 121 Labour

This blog was originally compiled at the time of the Monkeypox epidemic in 2022. A new and more infectious variant of MPox which also has a higher fatality rate, has now hit Africa, and looks as though it may be coming our way. Young children are particularly hard-hit by this variant of the virus. Read on to find out more about how the last epidemic developed, and see also the update compiled this month at the end of the article....hopefully this will provide some insight into what we should expect in UK. T here has been much speculation in the media recently about the current Monkeypox outbreak – not surprisingly perhaps, in view of our recent experience with Covid… Some pundits are even predicting that this could be the fore-runner of the next pandemic   - how realistic a view is this, and should we be worried ? Looking at the evidence objectively, at present the answer to both questions is: Not very so far….but we should not be complacent. First, let’s look at the nature of th

  Smartphone/Tablet Apps – Should they be better documented ? It’s a sad fact that many of the Android and iOS apps that I’ve come across in my travels have been poorly documented and leave the novice user perplexed as to how they work…. I began to wonder why this might be the case quite soon after starting to use smartphones & tablets myself. Having authored quite a bit of software over the years (for pcs rather than mobiles), some of which was produced to support work projects and has been extensively used by professional colleagues, I had some prior knowledge of the coding process - and what goes into validating and documenting an app. This provided some insight into why developers might find it hard work to provide full instructions for their apps. It also provided some clues as to why early releases of some apps have a habit of crashing when used by the unsuspecting. I wanted to explore this a bit further, since these are both important issues to address for any app develope