Leaving aside points about driving licence numbers being unique or whatever, it would be the silver pentagram that I made back in the '90s and have worn (or occasionally carry in my wallet etc, when the cord breaks) ever since.

We used to have a coal fire when I was growing up, so routinely in the winters.

Movie - Titanic. It has simply never appealed.

TV - any popular reality show. They are just not my thing.

Is 'consistent' the critical thing here though? Or is introducing ideas to large numbers of people who could actually benefit from them?

Should all leftists just sit in a small room together and only talk among themselves to ensure that they are consistent? Or should they be going to places where there are other people and talking to them to actually spread leftist ideas among them?

From the article:

“The issue is not where the money is spent,” says Clark, now president of Defenders of Wildlife. “The issue is that there isn’t nearly enough of it.”

That is the most significant part of this.

However, single species conservation work is almost short sighted IMHO. The vast majority of the time the main issue for species that need conservation is loss of habitat.,You need to be conserving that habitat as a whole including the entire flora and fauna community from the ground up.

There have been several. I'll pick Eric Berne's book Games People Play.

I immediately recognised a few that I had played and, having been 'called out' on them by the book, it did lead me to stop and behave more constructively.

What do you mean by "what happens"? You get nutrients from the food and you hydrate with the water. You carry on as normal otherwise. Nothing much else "happens".

The closest to me AFAIK is Sealand, but I'd rather not, tbh. I do actually have a passport from Waveland, declared as part of a Greenpeace campaign some years back and based on Rockall, but also not too appealing as a long-term residence.

At one site that I lived and worked on for several years, we discussed declaring unilateral independence on several occasions. It was a shingle spit nature reserve and seemed a promising location, but we never did. Well, not so far.

Overall, the Free Borough of Llanrwst looks a good bet. I have been there and definitely enjoy the area.

This is an idea that has been around for very long time. Plato used the Ring of Gyges to talk about it - which went on to inspire Wells' The Invisible Man - and influenced Tolkien among others.

How local do you mean?

There is an icecream brand based around 20 miles from me that makes some spectacular Gooseberry and Elderflower icecream.

There is also an artisanal bakery about the same distance the other way that does some of the best pizzas that I have ever had, as it happens.

Either of those probably.

I watched three films last week:

• Barbie (2023) - pleasingly intelligent satire.

• Colette (2018) - lavish fin de siecle biopic.

• Alice in the Cities (1974) - existentialist road movie prefiguring Wenders' later Paris, Texas.

Which was best? Well, the first, US, section of AitC had more intensity to offer than the European conclusion. Wenders was still developing here. Colette looked beautiful and had a story to tell, but did not seem to get to the root of what kept the protagonist with Willy so long. Barbie also looked good, Gerwig knew what she wanted to say and articulated it pretty well and entertainingly, if a little schmaltzy - inevitably - towards the end.

Overall, I would say that Barbie wins.

Que sorpresa!