More on Brexit

More on Brexit

Many the implications of the vote to leave the EU has been exercising my mind. I have finally got my notes & thoughts to publish my initial views on the politics of the aftermath; this article attempts to limit itself to the events and thoughts of the first week after the referendum. I have published them as at the date I started my storify where I collected the sources I wanted to quote. This is because it is one of a planned series, I plan to follow up with a piece on immigration, one on Labour Party and Left unity and one on the mutation of capitalism and politics.

One of the reasons for my delay was that I was asked for a number of quotes in the IT trade press which took some writing time. I have posted the complete quotes as three articles in linkedin pulse, on Cybersecurity, Privacy & Trade and the single market, covering innovation, TTIP & Privacy and net neutrality. …

Boris and probity

Boris and probity

He's very unlucky, at the least! Let's look at the Garden Bridge! Ooops! Here's a storify story dealing with the bridge, Convoy's Wharf, his management of the Met and relationships with its Commissioners, his "chicken feed" fees from the Telegraph and his fast track appointment of Veronica Wadley to the Arts Council. ...

Natter’s going?

natter

Natter it would seem is dying. As a last, maybe penultimate change they propose to remove messages from the system after 24 hours. This is too much for me and many others as well. I first took up with Natter because I was attracted to the discipline of the ultra short message; it was three words at the time. I thought I might experiment with anonymity, but choose not to since I had another goal. I sought to use Natter as an ultra-micro blog, and for this I need permanence. I was hoping for RSS or ATOM so I could integrate it into my web spore using Sam Ruby’s planet venus, but it wasn’t to be. …

Hacker’s Guide to Economics

Hacker’s Guide to Economics

I went over to Hackney to attend the People’s PPE. This, their second event was called the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to Economics and I originally produced a storify, which is now here which is a collection of tweets and other social media comments about the event. The rest of this blog is based on my notes and the thoughts it provoked, on debt, banking regulation and Islamic finance, a bit less about the class war.

Ann Pettifor, Director of PRIME, opened the session, stating that the problem was debt and the banks, which create debt.  …

The next evolution of capitalism

The next evolution of capitalism

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. …

Insights

Insights

Some of what I write deserves to be remembered for longer than the seven days I allow for comments. This page lists some of those articles, lists the site feeds, hosts, points at three code projects, hosts a deepart project hosted at flickr and points at some mirrors I created. This menu node also has child pages, mingle is a feed aggregator,

my mingle | my brexit mingle | my old storifies | my Labour NEC mingle


and on this page

Pinned Articles  :: Deepart ::  Mirrors

Pinned articles

Flickr & Deepart

I have been playing with Deepart, deepart.io, I have an album with most of my output in it and have installed a slide show below.

Wallpaper

Mirror(s)

I have copied some material to my site and offer them as mirrors for the original, sometimes because I knew it was going, sometimes because I though it deserved saving, or because I expect the material to loose  its permalink.

  • A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy. Report of the Commission
    on the UK’s Future
    • A report commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party … pdf … Download
  • The Forde Report
    • A report on the leaked document on Antisemitism in the Labour Party, … pdf … Download
  • Systems Update Required!
    • A report commissioned by Labour Together on Labour’s Digital Campaigning capability … pdf … Download
  • GMB Elizabeth Henry Report
    • A report commissioned in 2002 by about the GMB and racism … pdf … Download
  • Action Plan: Driving Antisemitism out of the Party
    • by the Labour Party, the RESPONSE TO THE EHRC REPORT‘INVESTIGATION INTO ANTISEMITISM IN THE LABOUR PARTY’  … .pdf … Download
  • Culture for All, a report/proposal by Tracy Brabin
    • This was launched in April 2020, uploaded in June … .pdf … Download
  • Starmer’s 10 Pledges to the Labour Party
    • I made a mirror from his campaign site, … .pdf … Download
  • The 2019 Manifesto, Time for a Real Change
    • Here is a mirror, … .pdf … Download
  • Report to the Labour Party NEC on Allegations of antisemitism at OULC
    • I found this in 2020, originally dated in Aug 2016 … .pdf … Download
  • Who nominated who in Labour’s Spring 2020 elections
    • These have a habit of disappearing, here’s the HTML page on my blog which points at .pdf copies of the Labour Party’s pages.
  • Tory Landslide, Progressives Split
    • A Datapraxis Analysis of the UK General Election, Dec 2019, .pdf … Download … or HTML
  • Without a transformation on Brexit, Labour’s election chances are dead
    • by Paul Mason, from the New Statesman, published in July 2019, .pdf … Download
  • The Electoral Commission, “EU Referendum Designation of Lead Campaigners””
    • written over the summer of 2016, posted to their site on 25 Oct 2016, .pdf … Download
  • Alwyn Turner, “Things can only get bitter: The 1992 general election was the moment when a generation gave up on politics.”
    • a mirror hosted here – .pdf … Download.
  • Stonebraker and others, “The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)”
    • a mirror hosted here – .pdf … Download.
  • The Indy on Rachel Reeves’ “Riots could sweep streets of Britain if immigration is not curbed after Brexit” speech
    • a mirror hosted here .pdf … Download
  • Carole Cadwalladr’s “The Cambridge Analytica Files”, on how they got Facebook’s Data
    • from the Guardian – .pdf … Download
  • “Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics” by Jamie Doward, Carole Cadwalladr and Alice Gibbs
    • from the Guardian – .pdf… Download
  • Carole Cadwalladr’s “The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked,”
    • from the Guardian – .pdf … Download …
  • The Rules of UK Labour Party – now 2020,
  • The Wisdom of Cows
    • the world through the ownership or control of two cows  – .htm … View here…
  • Snipsnap – posted Summer 2010
    • it was missing for a couple of months, I created a mirror, and posted my tools, most of this has transitioned to github – .htm …  View my wiki page here…
  • My blog at Sun – posted Autumn 2009, updated Dec 2016
    • this is now copied to this site, for those who still need it, I have an an XML file, originally designed to act as an archive or source for migration – .xml … View here… XML
  • Report of the Digital Champion
    • Report on Digital Inclusion, I think I found this hard to find and hope that this mirror will help. (It really needs a landing page, possibly on the wiki.) – .pdf … View Here…
  • Citymax.org – posted Summer 2016
    • ex-colleagues created this page to commemorate the company, which existed from 1986 to 1997. For more see here….
  • EDRi Charter of Digital Rights

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This is a non-commercial web site.

I try to obey the law, which means that there should be no copyrighted material unless permission has been given. All copyright owners material should be and will be recognised. I will exercise my “fair use/fair dealing” rights, and my rights as a blog publisher, etc.  etc.

I have tried to conduct a search to identify the copyright status and owners of all third party content, but mainly images, to allow me to comply with the copyright restrictions and obligations. In the case of some images, I have been unable to identify the terms and/or owners but since they are already available on the internet, I have either linked or made local copies in order to ensure the long term availability of the image and for performance reasons. A third reasons for storing images is that wordpress’s featured image cannot  function using a remote URL and so I have created a local/cache copy,  possibly resized to permit the image’s use as ‘featured’ image.

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This section is bookmarked using this bookmark https://davelevy.info/privacy-copyright/#copyrightpolicy

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Linking is not approval.

Acceptable Use

The blog is open for comments for seven days, the wiki is open for comments for longer. They are moderated; don’t be a dick. Don’t use the logins for purposes other than agreed. Play nicely and legally.

Cookies.

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Twitter

I changed my twitter policy and announced it on this blog, where I state that “comments are mine, retweets, likes and bookmarks do not signify agreement”, bookmarks likely to mean ‘read later’.

Technical

This site is hosted by One&One, and implemented in WordPress. I am using the Spacious theme. …