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London Labour Conference 2014
A recovered stroy from storify created to document London Labour’s Conference.
This is published as at the date created. …
A day in the life …
bit of a struggle with wordpress, followed by a huge turkish kebab at Levante Pide …
London Labour in Europe
I attended the lunchtime meeting hosted by three of London’s Labour MEPs. They started by saying thank you to the members at the meeting for the efforts made to secure London’s fantastic result in the Euro elections. The meeting was framed as “How to fight UKIP?” The old canard, started by Farage that London is inoculated from UKIP, because we’re young, liberal and cosmopolitan, the truth in my mind is that London’s multiculturalism is its UKIP anti-body. One of the attendees, spoke on dealing with UKIP, which I summarised in this tweet, …
Going to London Labour’s Regional Conference
Lewisham Deptford’s delegation to the London Labour Regional Conference, held at Hammersmith & Fulham’s Town Hall was reduced through illness but there were a couple of us who made the journey.The morning consisted of awards, keynote speeches from Harriet Harman & Sadiq Kahn and motions on Health and Economics. Sadly I didn’t get to read the Conference Arrangements Committee report which explained why many of the proposed Emergency Motions weren’t emergencies, were contrary to the rules, contrary to the law or, and my personal favourite, silly. (I might have made the last one up.) …
Thirsty
Didn’t know that there was a London “Thirsty Bear”. Is it by any chance related? http://thethirstybear.com/food/, .com URL suggests not …
Lessons
1 hours lesson on snow boarding, I ache a bit but it won’t be the last …
Puncture
What a morning, although others will have had worse. Puncture! We’re down to 1 car. #firstworldproblems …
Campaigning
Just clearing up the flat; it’s the first time I have had a minute here for weeks. I went to a privacy party, a benefit for Privacy International in North London last night; what a great team they have in the UK. …
Coming Privacy Law
Yesterday, attended a session convened by the BCS North London branch, called “Data Privacy – How Private is IT?” The presentation was given by two PWC staff members in two parts, the first was a forward looking review at the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation by Kyrisia Sturgeon and the second part a scenario based exploration of good data protection practice led by Pragasen Morgan. To me the coming key changes in the law are that all companies will need to have a qualified data protection officer, and it implements a right to be forgotten, or more accurately a right to be unindexed. …
I need 27 suppliers? Watching film in the UK
A UK movies fan has to subscribe to 27 services to get a full catalog of current(ish) releases. On the 27th Sept, Torrentfeak comments on an MPAA funded report on film distribution in the USA. It highlights the oddity that the most used service (Netflix) has the weakest catalogue. Later in the year, the researcher, KPMG LLP published a report on the UK market, and locally hosted here … which Torrentfreak commented on here…. The headline was that a film fan wanting the best catalogue would need to subscribe to 27 services, which seems a bit excessive. See below/overleaf for critical quotes from the reports … …