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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

There's whole host of xkcd's that just hit life spot on. There should be a meme around each - 'what age were you when you first realised X'. Like who hasnt seen the phenomenon cartooned in this one: '979: Wisdom of the Ancients' xkcd.com/979/

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

This week the Economist has a piece on use of AI in speeches by MPs. In UK, around 10% of words spoken are now identifed as having been written by AIs. In Australia its 20%. Laugh or cry?

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

When you become a billionaire, everything becomes effectively free, and nothing matters beyond your net worth. There are no consequences. When they speak of freedom, they mean theirs, not yours - you don't exist. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 26/09/2026

External displays on the new trains are cute , midway along each carriage. They don’t seem camera friendly tho - it was working fine

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 26/09/2026

“Look, no wheels”. the shorter carriages don’t have wheels on new Piccadilly Line trains

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 26/09/2026

New trains again on Piccadilly Line, this one practicing stopping at Turnham Green.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 26/09/2026

... ② You cant help but notice on a whole range of issues from trade, security, human rights, and democracy itself, there's a 'Coalition of the Willing' de facto in place, nothing singularly formal but a mesh of agreements and aligned interests.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 25/09/2026

A healthy bit of scepticism for this WSJ piece. It reckons the AI infrastructure investment bet underway is bigger than Railroads, Electrification, 1950s Highways, Telecoms or anything else. www.wsj.com/economy/the-... The scepticism comes from the way they handle timescales and the total, for AI.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 24/09/2026

The Guardian today has a picture spread on the gorgeous scene from Switzerland of the famous annual alpabzug, the bringing down of the herds from high pasture to barns for the winter. *puts glasses on* The famous Swiss alpacas do it too it seems 🤭

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 23/09/2026

I've never quite understood why London has had such poor service from BT over FTTP rollout. Its shocking compared with most of the country. www.thinkbroadband.com/news/openrea...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 23/09/2026

I can’t remember last time I sat in this square off Horseferry Road. Striking tho, that essentially every building around it is ‘new’ 1/6 of the sides of square still in shrink wrapping. In middle of what most would think of as a heavily conserved area.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 20/09/2026

Open House Sunday No 2. Canons Park, next to that church and the Jubilee Line.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 20/09/2026

Open House Sunday No 1 - out in Zone 5, just 200m or so from the Jubilee Line - Church of St Lawrence, Little Stanmore. Duke of Chandos, 1715, back when London was more than a tube ride away. Distinctly not typical CoE.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Not quite Open London St Bartholomew The Great is a tad made over at the moment - set up for a film of some sort in a big way

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House No 10 - Karl Marx Memorial Library. somehow I made it out without self combusting or being detected and locked up in their famous tunnels 🤣

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House No 9 - Museum of the Order of St John. Chanced on this one walking by, so only the garden was open - church opens later

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House No 7 - Founders Hall. Note to VC and startups: this isn’t for you, not your sort of founder. This one is for metallurgy - metal founders

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House No 6 - Haberdashers Hall, nr Smithfield. Opened 2002. The 4th hall. Lost to Great Fire, The War, and then the post war reconstructed one had structural problems. So the Hall was rebuilt as a quadrangle

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House London No 5 - St Vedast alias Foster , nr St Paul’s .

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

.. it’s has a statue of Cass too. Though the info board next to it has essentially just one subject on its mind

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

… the Commons has a statute of Thatcher. For some reason it’s on loan to Guildhall

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House London No 3 - Guildhall

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House London No2 - St Mary Aldermary. Now a Guild church, and home to the Moldovan 🇲🇩 Orthodox Church in London

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19/09/2026

Open House London - No1 - Westminster Quaker Meeting House . I’ve walked by it so often, but this might be my first time inside

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 18/09/2026

Another Open House event today. Royal Society of Antiquaries picked today for their slot in in opening.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 18/09/2026

Slightly tired Chiltern train today, probably the last time I’ll be on Chiltern as a private company. Possibly one of last times I’ll use any private train co - GWR will be nationalised soon and I don’t use Avanti (no need). Slightly worn train too at that.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 18/09/2026

Another year, another iPhone launch day, With all the queues outside and buzz inside as extraordinary amounts of cash change hands. This one is the 19th. Must admit the colours look great though not as standout as last years orange. Burgundy is cool. Here’s black alongside it

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 15/09/2026

... ④ Further, the Representation of the People Bill going through the Lords now (its been through the Commons) statesthat this rule on political donations will take effect from 25th March 2026. (Section 61 para 7) . ... bills.parliament.uk/publications...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 15/09/2026

... ③ the July letter is www.gov.uk/government/p... I've attached the two key paragraphs from the letter.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14/09/2026

Another Open House London adjacent visit - St Bartholomew the Great

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14/09/2026

Not Open House but adjacent to an event. LIttle St Bartholomew’s

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14/09/2026

Open House London, Day 3 . Bart’s Hospital, Hogarth staircase and Great Hall

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14/09/2026

New toys out on the DLR earlier . I wonder what’s in the massive boxes at front - seems excessive. Driverless systems in other locations don’t have them .

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14/09/2026

… to take effect immediately , with the legislation catching up as quickly as possible. It’s a system already allowed by Parliament and the courts, used sparingly . And for issues like this, not criminal stuff or whatever else. www.freshfields.com/en/our-think...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

OPen House London - Temple Church

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Open House London Middle Temple Library. I wonder how many lawyers have complained about the sign over the years. Also, it’s a given isn’t it that even the best endowed libraries are littered with obsolete kit like old monitors

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

open House London - Middle Temple

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Open House London … who dis sneaking into photo stream

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Open House London Day 2 No 3 - Two Temple Place. I’d have a tad more time for billionaires if they had the taste to invest in craftsmanship to create new buildings. So few do.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Open House London Day 2 No 2. KCL Library . Amazing that until 1997 it was the Public Record Office . Also, must be weird being a student trying to use the library when hoards of Open House people are walking through constantly 😏

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Loitering outside KCL library until it actually opens, not unlike a bunch of other Open House folk who forgot to check the opening time

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13/09/2026

Open House Day 2 No1 - Dr Johnson’s House .

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

Open House No 4 today, The Cloud House , Gospel Oak. Absokute joy to see - colourful as wotsit.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

Open House No3 today - William Morris’s press on Upper Mall almost next to The Dove

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

Open House no2 - The Tin House , Shepherds Bush

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

First Open House visit of the day done - Rayners Lane & the Zoroastrian centre . Now relying On Piccadilly Line to not screw up the next one, which closes at 1. (It was a 1930s cinema before turning pub then religious centre)

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

... it was reported ages ago that the apartments were being sold as shells (normal at that price range) so that a new owner could fit them out to exactly the design and spec they wanted. It seems there's never been a photo from inside. This is an artists impression of how one might look

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 12/09/2026

An awful lot of the early space age isnt in orbit anymore. The earliest satellite left in orbit is the 4th, Vanguard 1, launched in 1958 by the USA. Its upper stage rocket body is also still in orbit. You can still see them, even though the satellite itself is just 15cm across, about the size ...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 11/09/2026

So much truth in today's Guardian cartoon

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