I made this storify about the impact of Labour’s internal politics on the vote in Parliament on Syria. This post was created in Dec. 2019, although back dated to its original date created. How optimistic I was that the Party would come together around its democracy. 🙄
Over the weekend, Mrs. L had exercised the dog thoroughly over the previous two days and planned to give her a rest on the Sunday; she had other ideas, one crack in the door, and she’s off like Flynn, using her superb sense of smell to track Mrs. L. down despite a half mile start. …
So Parliament is to debate if it should authorise the government to use the RAF to bomb ISIS in Syria. What we must keep in our mind is that we i.e. the British state must only act under the rule of law. While the UN resolution (SC 2249) last week makes military action more likely to be legal, the legality still depends upon the actions to be taken. Many argue that the UN security council resolution changes nothing, because it does not authorise the use of military force under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
Any actions need to remain an effective act of self-defence. …
This is a storify I made to help me understand, Cameron’s decision to undertake a military assassination of British citizens who were ISIS fighters. I came to the conclusion it was illegal.
This page was created in June 2019, while the Storify was created as at the date of this post. …
This is the storify I made to help me write my blog article on Parliament’s decision to bomb Syria, the article was published on this blog in an article called “Don’t Bomb Syria“.
This page was created in April 2018, while the Storify was created as at the date of this post. …
Good to catch up with Colin, at his retirement, from the Civil Service, party and bumping into people I hadn’t seen for, in one case, 30 years.
How much is Capitalism changing due to the silicon revolution in the means of production. A bunch of books, articles and reviews have been released over the last few months considering the short and long term future of the techno-economy. We are on the cusp of Silicon Revolution’s “Golden Age”, when the people rein in the excesses of the capital market’s hypergrowth excesses. This story was originally created in the Summer of 2015, my hope was to read both “Post Capitalism” and “The 2nd Machine Age” and write a blog on my views as to the nature of the changes coming; but life got in the way. …
Solidarity with the people of Paris & France. …
A nice note on a TOR attack conducted by a University on behalf of the FBI and questioning the ethics due to the collateral damage, by Matthew Green. In the UK, the new DRIP law legalises otherwise illegal activity by the intelligence services. The author of this article assumes that mass surveillance is bad, and that despite the fact that they have broken TOR and found evidence to make two serious prosecutions, no one knows how many privacy violations have been made. …
One new phone using a wifi browser at home and once again I have to register that I don’t want parental controls. (This is about the 7th device on this gateway).
