Hi. I’m Nicholas Whyte, a public affairs consultant in Brussels, political commentator in Northern Ireland, and science fiction fan. This is my blog on WordPress, but you can also find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads. You are welcome to follow me on all of those, but I usually won’t add you back unless we know each other personally. If you want to contact me I prefer email to nicholas dot whyte at gmail dot com, or at my work address if it’s something to do with my job.

Since late 2003, I’ve been recording (almost) every book that I have read. At 200-300 books a year, that’s over 5,000 books that I have written up here. These are the most recent; I also record the books I have read each week and each month. These days each review includes the second paragraph of the third chapter of each book, just for fun; and also a purchase link for Amazon UK. (Yes, I know; but I get no other financial reward for writing all of this.)

During the pandemic I developed an interest in family history and have been recording my research here.

This WordPress blog replaced my Livejournal in March 2022. I was able to copy across all of my old Livejournal posts; unfortunately the internal links in old posts will still in general point back to Livejournal, and though I was able to import images, I wasn’t able to import videos, so it’s a little imperfect.

Comments welcome.