Last month the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled the US Safe Harbour treaty to be insufficient for European data protection law purposes. How important this is, is subject to debate. One of the principles of European Data Protection law is that personal and confidential data must be “adequately protected”. The CJEU has stated that the US Safe Harbour agreement offers insufficient and uncertain protection to European personal data. …
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very….
A storify on the debate in the HoC on Syria.I mention Hilary Benn’s summing-up speech, its reference to the international brigades & the quality of the Tory anti-speeches. I remind myself and others that to be legal, military action must be effective; you can’t just fuck things up because you’re cross.
Originally created in Dec 2015, and published in this blog in Nov 2019. It was after writing this story, that I came across Professor Paul Preston and his work on Spain and the International Brigades. …
Out of Sight with the Fabians
I attended my first South London Fabian Society earlier tonight. This is part of my search for a place to think and refresh my enthusiasm for ideas and electoral politics. The speaker was a man called Richard Brooks, who had worked as a senior policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. He is the author of an award for his Fabian booklet, Out of Sight, “How we lost track of thousands of NEETS, and how we can transform their prospects”. My big takeaway is below/overleaf … …
Recreational bombing
I don’t think anyone used the term #recreationalbombing. Parliament don’t seem to have learned the lessons from the history of the decision to go to Iraq; this decision will haunt Cameron, although he’ll be gone in two or three years. Someone said, “Cameron doesn’t do strategy”, he was right, and those who trust him for it have made a big mistake. …
NLP
“Will the phrase #recreationalbombing kill Cameron’s plan to bomb IS in Syria? …