Over the last week, Google's transnational profit shielding has come into focus with HMRC agreeing that they can settle up and agreed a sweetheart deal. It's not popular, nor is it probably the most important. Amazon is probably a bigger problem for the real economy. I made a story on storify which I copied over in Jul 2020 and back dated to the date of it's original publication. See overleaf/below for the story.
I was invited to attend Tom Watson’s speech building on much of his campaigning work and presented in the New Statesman as reclaiming civil liberty for the Left, although sub titled by him as “David Cameron is governing from the shadows”. In this article I review the speech; I try to report on it and to comment by adding some personal views and insights, in some cases new ideas provoked by Tom’s speech. It was quite a long speech and it takes a diverse route to get to its polemical heart which is that Democracy is the choice by an informed citizenry of a government, subject to the rule of law and that the Freedom of Information Act is one of the pillars of this contract and should not be diminished or repealed. …
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. …
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. 🙄
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. …
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. …
I made a storify about Corbyn’s actions to normalise his economic strategy by taking advice from the best.
I made a storify about VW having been caught using software to cheat on emissions regulation. This impacts their rights to do business in some jurisdictions and their customer’s tax liabilities in others. It also raises the dormant yet critical question as to how do we as citizens know that software is telling the truth.
See also this, on this blog – “pragmatic radicalism’s top of the policies on the digital revolution“ …
I made a storify during the leadership election in 2015 asking if the Shadow Cabinet/PLP would accept a Corbyn mandate from the membership?
Posted to this blog in Nov 2019 and backdated to the date of the blog. …