Purpose of this page is to list various Group Policies that I’ve set, to strip out all the useless nonsense from Windows 10. Get rid of search suggestions within Explorer

More parasitic price-gouging on the part of Airbnb. Edinburgh is inundated with Airbnb properties; every year the prices keep going up, anyone who doesn’t have piles of cash is priced out, Airbnb reaps £££, nobody wins.

A set of searches that I tend to undertake a couple of times a week. All UK-based .org domains mentioning PAs in last month All .co.uk domains mentioning PAs in last week (excluding some news sites / forums) All .

I use yt-dlp for downloading videos from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, etc. A full list of all the “extractors” is available here. Here are some of the download strings I use:

Happy leap-year-day? My attention was drawn to this piece from Full Fact: So I sumbitted a request to the Australian Department of Home Affairs for the following information: Number of General Migration (subclasses 189, 190 and 491) and Employer Sponsor Migration (subclasses 186, 187 and 482) visa applications lodged, granted, refused and on hand from 2013 to 2023 (inclusive), by year, for applicants with British nationality or applying from the UK, for Medical Practitioner ANZSCO 253.

This is in follow-up to the HSCS committee hearing, 16/01/24. Original request, 16 January 2024: I refer to your appearance before the HSCS Committee today, 16th January 2024, regarding the regulation and expansion of Medical Associate Professional roles within NHS Scotland.

This is in relation / follow-up to this Tweet, regarding PAs being recruited to supervise doctors at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness: On 23/12/2023 the following request was sent to NHS Highland:

This is in follow-up to the original request made to the General Medical Council (GMC) in October 2023, regarding the regulation of Medical Associate Professionals (MAPs) in the UK. Follow-up, dated 8 December 2023:

Roughly transcribed (there may be errors); links open to the Scottish Parliament TV website. Alternative link (YouTube) Committee members: CH: Claire Haughey (Convener) PS: Paul Sweeney (Deputy Convener) SG: Dr Sandesh Gulhane

TL;DR The Guardian were caught collecting user data without consent in LocalStorage (similar to cookies). The Guardian repeatedly denied there was a problem. They’ve now fixed their website. Naughty Guardian. Don’t be like the Guardian.