{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"PGill","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/","description":"Recent content on PGill","generator":"Hugo -- gohugo.io","language":"en-gb","copyright":"Phoebe Gill","lastBuildDate":"Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000","item":[{"title":"A \"really tiny number\"","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2026\/03\/30\/cass-really-tiny-number\/","pubDate":"Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2026\/03\/30\/cass-really-tiny-number\/","description":"In an interview last month with the BBC, Hillary Cass said:\n “There are a tiny number of people who will never be comfortable with their biological sex, with the gender associated with their biological sex.”\n…\nWhen asked how many children with distress about their gender would experience that same distress into adulthood, Cass said it was impossible to assess precisely, but it would be a “really tiny number”."},{"title":"Trans kids deserve better","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2024\/07\/02\/trans-kids-deserve-better\/","pubDate":"Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2024\/07\/02\/trans-kids-deserve-better\/","description":"I was a trans child once, though I did not know it. The legacy of Section 28 was that I did not find out who I was at school. It was only a couple of years ago that I found out more about the trans experience and felt a growing sense of recognition. The time since I came out publicly has been the most joyful of my life, by a huge margin."},{"title":"Bethnal Green and Stepney","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2024\/06\/26\/bethnal-green-and-stepney\/","pubDate":"Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2024\/06\/26\/bethnal-green-and-stepney\/","description":"The next government will be a Labour government. It is now more vital than ever that we have Green MPs to hold them to account and push them where they fall short. I am therefore standing for the Green Party in Bethnal Green and Stepney. I’ve found many welcoming communities since moving here five years ago, and feel at home here. I left the public sector in 2022, since when I’ve been supporting Nathalie, our Green councillor in Tower Hamlets, including meeting with residents to better understand their priorities."},{"title":"Theatre","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/theatre\/","pubDate":"Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/theatre\/","description":"Theatre I’ve been involved in  Sunshine on Leith; May 2023; Bridewell Theatre; LX op for the second week: not quite to my taste, but well done. I liked the way the chorus was lit in Letter from America. Hunchback of Notre Dame; April 2023; London Oratory Theatre; followspot op: a really excellent production. First show appearing as myself. The bells!  Theatre I’ve watched  A Strange Loop; September 2023; Barbican Theatre: quite incredible."},{"title":"Who the deuce may she be?","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2023\/02\/26\/phoebe\/","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2023\/02\/26\/phoebe\/","description":"WILFRED.\tYes, ‘tis Phoebe - Your sister Phoebe! Your own little sister!\nALL.\tAye, he speaks the truth; ‘Tis Phoebe1\n Hello. I am Phoebe. I use she\/her pronouns (they\/them is also acceptable).\nPlease update my details in any system you control. For both email and website, pjgill.net replaces bjgill.net.\n  Gilbert & Sullivan, The Yeomen of the Guard, Finale Act 1. Yes, this is the source of my name."},{"title":"The cruelty is the point","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2023\/01\/17\/the-cruelty-is-the-point\/","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2023\/01\/17\/the-cruelty-is-the-point\/","description":"The UK government has now published the reasons for blocking the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. It’s quite lengthy, so let me summarise they reasons they gave.\n “Part 2: Adverse effects of different GRC regimes across the UK”: Scottish Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) issued under the new regime would not be recognised by the rest of the UK, which would create legal, administrative, and practical problems. “Part 3: Adverse impacts resulting from increased risk of fraudulent applications”: there is nothing specific to the rest of the UK here - it’s the same argument as made by Scottish opponents of the bill."},{"title":"Enabling custom Kubernetes resource support in IntelliJ","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2020\/07\/12\/helm-linting-intellij\/","pubDate":"Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2020\/07\/12\/helm-linting-intellij\/","description":"At work, we’re using a Kubernetes cluster with a lot of custom resources. These custom resources allows us to configure access to databases, queues, and more.\nHowever, this does mean that most IDEs refuse to handle our Kubernetes charts due to the presence of these resources. I’ve recently found a solution to this problem using IntelliJ Ultimate.1\nI’ve written a small python script to extract the definitions from the default kubectl output."},{"title":"Recovering the message from a failed git commit","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2019\/07\/23\/git-commit-message\/","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2019\/07\/23\/git-commit-message\/","description":"At work, I sometimes fail to create git commits. For example:\n$ git commit error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object Despite appearances, your carefully crafted commit message has not been lost. You can find it in the .git folder in the root of the repository:\n$ cat .git\/COMMIT_EDITMSG Recovering failing git commit message # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit."},{"title":"My salary history","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/salary_history\/","pubDate":"Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/salary_history\/","description":"I am publishing this page to allow my colleagues to compare their salaries with me. Therefore, I hereby consent to any and all processing (etc.) of this data by those working at any organisation below.1\nGovernment Digital Service -> Cabinet Office -> Crown Commercial Service (2020-2022) I was a Senior Developer. My salary was:\n for the first 3 months, at ‘Proficient A’ on the DDAT London pay scale, with a full-time-equivalent salary of \u00a363 500 thereafter, at ‘Proficient B’ on the DDAT London pay scale, with a full-time-equivalent salary of \u00a369 500  I worked part-time (90%)."},{"title":"Why I use Firefox beta","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2019\/02\/12\/firefox\/","pubDate":"Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2019\/02\/12\/firefox\/","description":"The other day, our frontend integration tests were broken on my machine. These tests use Selenium, a tool for testing web pages using Firefox. It turned out that Firefox was waiting to install updates, and this broke Selenium.\nUpon realising what was happening, one of my colleagues asked me why I was using Firefox. The rest of the team uses Chrome. This, then, is my answer.\nI initially switched to Firefox at the release of Firefox Quantum - the first version of Firefox to contain code written in the Rust programming language."},{"title":"Migration from bgill.eu to bjgill.net","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/12\/30\/bjgill-net\/","pubDate":"Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/12\/30\/bjgill-net\/","description":"I am migrating from bgill.eu to bjgill.net - both this website and my e-mail. Please update any bookmarks\/address book entries by the end of March 2019.\nI used to host this website from bgill.eu, the domain that I own that I also use for my e-mail. I quite liked the domain - it was nicely optimised for length whilst still being meaningful. Alas - Bulgaria blocked any registration attempts for the even shorter bg."},{"title":"Your servant most attentive","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/12\/01\/all-change\/","pubDate":"Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/12\/01\/all-change\/","description":"After three years at Metaswitch, I’m moving to the Government Digital Service. I’m looking forward to working directly for the benefit of the general public.\nAs a member of the Civil Service, I need to both be and to be seen to be politically impartial. This ensures that ministers of all stripes can be confident working with the Service.\nThus, I shall be ceasing my political campaigning. I will also refrain from “making public remarks on matters of local or national controversy”, to paraphrase Civil Service guidance."},{"title":"Do we have a gender retention gap?","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/retention-analysis\/","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/retention-analysis\/","description":"Introduction My employer has now published their UK gender pay gap figures. This has prompted me to pick up earlier thinking about retention.\nMeasuring diversity in recruitment is easy. HR will be monitoring this. From my experience, this figure (particularly for gender) is not considered top secret and will often be shared internally - some companies even make this number public.\nRetention is both more difficult and more interesting. More difficult because companies are (somewhat understandably) more shy about their retention figures."},{"title":"Using a Yubikey inside a VirtualBox VM","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/02\/05\/usb-mapping\/","pubDate":"Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/02\/05\/usb-mapping\/","description":"I’ve got a Yubikey, a little USB security key. It’s main intended use is for two-factor authentication, but I mostly use mine for its ability to act as a GPG smartcard. The Yubikey stores the private key I use to sign the code I write1 and some of the e-mails I send.\nAt home, this is easy - my PC dual-boots into an Ubuntu environment I use for writing code. At work, though, we have Windows computers."},{"title":"Talking about local news for fun and profit","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/02\/04\/enfield-news-talk\/","pubDate":"Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/02\/04\/enfield-news-talk\/","description":"Last week, I gave ~100 of my colleagues a 7-minute tour of the past year’s news in the local borough. It was quite rewarding, and I believe a good means of spurring interest in local politics. In this post, I’ll talk about how this came to pass, and why you should think of doing likewise.\nMy employer - Metaswitch - is a company of about 700 people, with ~400 based in our head office in Enfield."},{"title":"Rust CI using Jenkins","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/01\/23\/rust-jenkins\/","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2018\/01\/23\/rust-jenkins\/","description":"At Metaswitch, we use Jenkins extensively for CI. So, when we started writing (proprietary) Rust code, Jenkins was the obvious choice of CI system.\nHowever, as a quick search revealed, few other people are using Jenkins for Rust \u2013 or, if they are, they\u2019re not talking about it on the internet. This, then, is the missing brief guide as to how to set up a simple CI pipeline for your Rust code in Jenkins."},{"title":"HTTPS Everywhere! Now including here","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/12\/19\/this-should-be-https\/","pubDate":"Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/12\/19\/this-should-be-https\/","description":"Shortly after initially creating this website just over a year ago, I discovered the setting that my hosting provider provides to turn on HTTPS access.\nI’ve now finally worked out how to redirect HTTP \u2192 HTTPS. Some helpful docs from the SRCF gave me the necessary configuration settings. This is something I’ve wanted to do for some time, as it seems a little pointless having an HTTPS site without making sure that all visitors get to enjoy a secure connection."},{"title":"Start menu oddity","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/12\/11\/start-menu-vlc\/","pubDate":"Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/12\/11\/start-menu-vlc\/","description":"Several minutes ago, I went to attempt to watch a DVD on my Windows PC. I normally use Windows Media Player for such things. However, in this instance I need to use VLC instead. Unfortunately, Windows does not make it easy for me to get to VLC from the start menu.\nThis sort of nonsense is one of the reasons why I tend to prefer a Linux desktop. Unfortunately, PC games still release with patchy Linux support, so I fear I’ll be tied to Windows for some time yet."},{"title":"'Integrity in sport' v.s. human rights - I thought the choice was clear","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/10\/18\/sports-toilets-trans-rights\/","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/10\/18\/sports-toilets-trans-rights\/","description":"The recent Green Party conference was the first one I’d been to. I really enjoyed the four days - met a lot of interesting people, learnt many new things, and voted on a lot of good motions seeking to improve our policy and processes.1 There were a small number of things I was less happy with, however, of which this is one.\nGreen Party policy is created and decided upon by the membership."},{"title":"\"I want the triumph! I want love!\"","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/08\/08\/turandot\/","pubDate":"Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/08\/08\/turandot\/","description":"Recently, I saw a performance of Turandot - Puccini’s final opera - at the Royal Opera House. It was very enjoyable, but left me with some interesting thoughts.\nLet me start by saying that I think it was a good production, albeit marred by missed opportunities.\nMost obviously, the gong. I’m sure there was a good reason why Calef only pretended to strike it. However, as a piece of theatre, those few seconds were jarringly unconvincing."},{"title":"A Vindication of the Importance of Context","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/06\/26\/woolstonecraft\/","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/06\/26\/woolstonecraft\/","description":"Last month, I finally got round to reading A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Woolstonecraft. I wish I’d read it five years ago.\nWoolstonecraft’s core argument is that women are just as human as men, and therefore deserve the same degree of education. It is not an easy (or pleasant) read, being somewhat verbose by modern standards.\nIt was most disconcerting that Woolstonecraft was having to make these arguments in the first place, however."},{"title":"Enfield: appalling poverty","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/05\/16\/enfield-poverty-pr\/","pubDate":"Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/05\/16\/enfield-poverty-pr\/","description":"At least 8,719 children in Enfield have been hit by the benefit cap, according to new figures from the Department of Work and Pensions.1 Greens will ensure that everyone in the UK \u2013 adults and children alike \u2013 has an income sufficient to fulfil basic needs.\nIn statistics released at the same time as local election results, the DWP revealed the human cost of the benefit cap to local people. More than 8,719 Enfield children in over 3,000 households have been affected by the cap since its introduction."},{"title":"Benefit cap impact","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/05\/11\/benefit-cap\/","pubDate":"Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/05\/11\/benefit-cap\/","description":"Last week, the Department of Work and Pensions slipped out new statistics that reveal the impact of the benefit cap. Introduced by the Tory-LibDem coalition in April 2013, it was made even more harsh in February.\nEnfield is particularly hard-hit. 3377 households in the borough have been trapped by the cap since its introduction. This is the 3rd most, despite Enfield only being the 59th most populous local authority!\nThe Tories, Labour and LibDems all voted in favour of the benefit cap."},{"title":"Representing Edmonton","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/04\/28\/general-election-candidate\/","pubDate":"Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/04\/28\/general-election-candidate\/","description":"It will be my great privilege to be the Green party candidate for Edmonton in the upcoming election.\nGreen policies are the best for moving towards a better, fairer UK. We have clear, sensible proposals for an equitable economy and a democratic Brexit (amongst other things), and would end inhumane Tory cuts to welfare and the NHS. We also support important local measures such as action on air pollution and 20 mph speed limits."},{"title":"AlterConf London","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/04\/07\/alterconf\/","pubDate":"Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/04\/07\/alterconf\/","description":"I recently attended AlterConf London, a rather interesting conference examining diversity and inclusion in the software industry.\nWrite-ups of the talks are below. Two major themes emerged: why the industry should care about diversity and inclusion, and how we can help.\nQuestions\/comments\/operatic allegories welcome.1 It’s possible that I may be misrepresenting or in error - the sketch notes should be more authoritative.\nOpen Open Source In Open Source Software (OSS) projects, code is of secondary importance."},{"title":"What are experimental physicists up to?","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/experimental-physics-engconf2017\/","pubDate":"Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/experimental-physics-engconf2017\/","description":"Slides"},{"title":"Some useful git aliases","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/03\/15\/git_config\/","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/03\/15\/git_config\/","description":"EDIT (2025-10-14): I’ve now posted my ~\/.gitconfig\nCompiled from various sources, this is what I use on a day-to-day basis.\nRemoves excessive verbiage from status, but not too much.\nalias.st=status -bs Some things are too long to type.\nalias.co=checkout Often, the last log is the only relevant one.\nalias.last=log -1 HEAD More condensed and prettier than plain log.\nalias.lg=log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ci)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim red)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' Using these shortcuts saves typing and ensures that I don’t forget to sign my commits."},{"title":"A thought on healthcare funding","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/03\/05\/medical-insurance\/","pubDate":"Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/03\/05\/medical-insurance\/","description":"A few weeks ago, I got my (somewhat belated) annual tax summary for 2015-16. It is mostly uninteresting - my pay slips already tell me how much tax I pay. An interesting coincidence, however, caught my eye.\nOn the reverse is a break-down of how ‘my’ tax was spent. According to this, ~20% went to ‘Health’. The reason I found this arresting is that my employer pays for private medical insurance for me."},{"title":"Did nothing in ","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/canary\/","pubDate":"Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/canary\/","description":"I intend to republish this statement annually (at some point in January). Please feel free to remind me if I lapse. I shall try to ensure that past versions of this page are available on the internet archive.\n2017 To the best of my knowledge, I have not inserted any backdoors or similar into any software, nor been party to any attempts to do so, nor been asked to do so."},{"title":"Did nothing in particular","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/01\/20\/canary\/","pubDate":"Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2017\/01\/20\/canary\/","description":"EDIT: to avoid excessively spamming my blog, I’ve moved the canary to https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/canary\/.\nTo the best of my knowledge, I have not inserted any backdoors or similar into any software, nor been party to any attempts to do so, nor been asked to do so.\nI intend to republish this statement annually. Please feel free to remind me if I lapse. I shall try to ensure that past versions of this page are available on the internet archive."},{"title":"Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/12\/05\/za-air-pollution\/","pubDate":"Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/12\/05\/za-air-pollution\/","description":"I recently read a rather interesting article about air pollution in South Africa. This is particularly interesting to me, since I will be visiting the country in the near future - if I spend 12 days there, roughly how much life expectancy will that cost me?\nData  The article suggested that 27 000 premature deaths across South Africa were caused by “chronic exposure to fine [Particulate Matter (PM)]”. Independently, the WHO has figures for premature deaths and DALYs lost to outdoor air pollution."},{"title":"Rossini is awesome","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/30\/rossini\/","pubDate":"Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/30\/rossini\/","description":"So I’ve been listening to quite a bit of Rossini over the past couple of days, starting with the Barber of Seville. It turns out that I really quite like his music.\nThis should perhaps not be too surprising: Mozart is (and remains) my favourite composer, and Rossini (a contemporary) writes music that feels very similar; the Act I finale of Barber being very reminiscent of various Mozart equivalents, with the same beautiful layering of voices."},{"title":"Tidy error handling","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/28\/tidy-error-handling\/","pubDate":"Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/28\/tidy-error-handling\/","description":"In some code I was looking through recently, I came across the following pattern:\nmatch a.do_something() { Ok(b) => { match b.do_something_else() { Ok(_) => Ok(()), Err(err) => CustomError::from(err), } } Err(err) => CustomError::from(err), } It is very clear what that code is doing, and what all the possible paths are. However, there are ways of shortening this and reducing the level of indentation required. We could, for example, use try!"},{"title":"TryFrom is not really necessary","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/28\/tryfrom-not-necessary\/","pubDate":"Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/2016\/11\/28\/tryfrom-not-necessary\/","description":"Not when we can do:\npub struct Alpha { beta: Option<bool>, } impl From<Alpha> for Option<bool> { fn from(a: Alpha) -> Option<bool> { a.beta } } "},{"title":"Some sample populations","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/sample-populations\/","pubDate":"Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/sample-populations\/","description":"This is a small side-project to produce some sample populations in order to have a point of comparison when discussing the degree of diversity in UK technology companies. I am doing this by producing sample populations based on the population at large and other similar companies. I also have plans to extend this to be able to produce populations representing the weighted average of graduate recruitment.\nCurrently, this takes the form of a spreadsheet."},{"title":"Gravitational Wave Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/gravitation-wave-detection-talk\/","pubDate":"Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/gravitation-wave-detection-talk\/","description":"Slides"},{"title":"Analysis of Fast-Scanning Data from ALMA","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/alma-analysis\/","pubDate":"Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/alma-analysis\/","description":"Project file (34 MB)"},{"title":"Tidal Tails of Interacting Galaxies","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/tidal-tails\/","pubDate":"Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/projects\/tidal-tails\/","description":{"0":"  "}},{"title":"About me","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/about\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/about\/","description":"Hi, I’m Phoebe Gill. I work for Policy Expert as a software engineer. I recently stood for the Green Party in Bethnal Green and Stepney.\nI am rather fond of the theatre, particularly opera - both as audience and back stage. I enjoy board\/role-playing\/video games, and am active in the Green Party.\nMy preferred pronouns are she\/her. I’m queer, trans, bi, and poly.\nContact For correspondance about my recent candidacy, please contact me at bethnal."},{"title":"Isn't generally heard","link":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/links\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/pjgill.net\/page\/links\/","description":"Music Here are some music recordings I like.\nG&S  Iolanthe Patience Pirates of Penzance Ruddigore The Sorcerer Trial by Jury Yeomen Of The Guard  Other  A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) Barber of Seville Candide Cosi Fan Tutte Die Entf\u00fchrung aus dem Serail Don Giovanni Eugene Onegin Rigoletto  "}]}}