- Campaigning for a jobs-first clean energy transition. | Climate Jobs UKon 27th August 2026 at 2:00 pm
Climate Jobs UK is a coalition of trade unions representing tens of thousands of energy workers, campaigning for a jobs-first clean energy transition that delivers high-paid, high-skilled work here in the UK. Tags: […]
- If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them - Schneier on Securityon 24th August 2026 at 5:50 pm
Annotations: evidence suggests the market itself could reassess that these companies offer nothing of financial value. In that case, perhaps we can return them both to their original purposes. If […]
- Tariffs: French a non-starter for Canadaon 23rd August 2026 at 8:54 pm
"The French language has become a contentious point in trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S." Tags: politics internationaltrade canada […]
- Governance of Open Source Software foundations: who holds the power?on 19th August 2026 at 9:55 am
by Ludivico Prattico, The research reported in this article attempts to discover who holds the power in open source software foundations through the analysis of governance documents. Artificial neural network analysis is used to analyse the content of the […]
- Distributed Computing Economics - ACM Queueon 19th August 2026 at 9:46 am
Computing economics are changing. Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for […]
- Rethinking Securityon 19th August 2026 at 9:00 am
for a just and peaceful world, by the Ammerdown group, they sat, "Across the world, people face growing insecurity as a consequence of a global crisis with ecological, economic, and political dimensions. The principal response to the world's most powerful […]
- The Story of the Founding Fathers’ Debate Over Presidential Power – Utneon 18th August 2026 at 2:52 pm
On proposing a president at the convention, a silence followed. This is an extract from a book. It does not talk about the politics of the future, but of the recent past. Tags: poliics […]
- Burnham should scrap the Defence Investment Plan and start againon 16th August 2026 at 9:35 pm
Luke Cooper looks at the industrial constraints that a privatised arms industry places on UK defence procurement and the distortion in capability and funding it creates. Luke argues that Mancheserism's supply side focus offers some answers. Luke also asks […]
- Poll & Write Clactonon 15th August 2026 at 9:11 pm
A Clacton By-election game. Tags: politics game clacton
- Is the Royal Navy still the second most powerful navy in the world after the US Navy. Can it destroy the Russian Navy in battle?on 15th August 2026 at 9:08 pm
from Quora, an answer by Sean Nolan, as ever fascinating well metricated response. TLDR The RN is not the second biggest Navy in the World, On the second question, the author says, "Yes the Royal Navy is capable of destroying the Russian Navy in battle, […]
- BEYOND BREXIT A NEW DEAL FOR BRITAIN, UKRAINE AND EUROPEon 14th August 2026 at 10:03 am
from Demos by NIck Boles, I say, "Deeper reading suggests this is a defence policy proposal, designed to prolong the UK and Europe's defence vassalage to the USA and dilute the EU's institutions' powers in building powerful cultural and political union. […]
- From Manchurian to Mancunian candidate: how different is Burnham from Starmer? | Morning Staron 12th August 2026 at 9:36 am
"Burnham’s ministerial appointees, to the right of himself, might indicate the direction of his government, writes SOLOMON HUGHES" Annotations: Starmer was defeated largely from the left. […]
- Beyond Brexit: A new deal for Britain, Ukraine and Europe from Demoson 11th August 2026 at 7:46 pm
This essay makes the case for a new deal for Britain’s relationship with Europe and Ukraine, Nick argues that Britain’s postwar strategy – resting on NATO and European integration – is unravelling as America pivots toward containing China and […]
- A new leader – but still avoiding questions from the left – Labour Hubon 11th August 2026 at 2:26 pm
Left CLP reps report back from Labour’s National Executive Committee meeting held on Tuesday 28th July. Annotations: Jess Barnard asked for an update on membership, noting the […]
- Term limits in parliamentary mandates Democratic renewal or disruption?on 6th August 2026 at 4:36 pm
From the European Parliament, I say, "One of the issues I rarely consider when looking at democratic reform is term limits, although I am in favour of them for Mayors. I note that they are more common in Presidential republics, as in Parliaments, people […]
- Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denialon 4th August 2026 at 4:02 pm
By Carole Cadwalladyr, hte death and life of the bad boys of brexit and their questionable funding, resurrected by the Sundat Times. Annotations: PayPal wouldn’t respond to my press […]
- Digital Government Index and Open, Useful and Re‑usable Data Indexon 3rd August 2026 at 5:02 pm
2025, also ranks governments, the UK does surprisingly well. Tags: politics digitaleconomy OECD
- The Porter's Tableon 3rd August 2026 at 3:36 pm
Bold, British Cooking Made For Connection Tags: culture london restautant
- AI is profitable. Its problem is another.on 3rd August 2026 at 3:29 pm
He says, "Don’t let margins fool you", I say, paying debt interest is an operational cost, and I am not sure that you can make the GPUs last 6 years, which the author uses in his current account P&L table. I am unclear if he's right about the […]
- Free Sankey Diagram Add-in for Excel - SankeyEngineon 30th July 2026 at 1:22 pm
More than a Sankey diagram: inspect flow, reach, outcomes, and anomalies in one click. Get started with the Free Edition directly within Excel. Tags: technology excel […]
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