Yesterday, Lewisham Council at its Budget Setting meeting, agreed a legal budget. While this involves reducing expenditure in some areas because of Tory central government grant cuts, the Labour Council kept its key manifesto promises, to freeze the Council Tax, sustain the living wage & build new houses. I made a storify from tweets and blogs from the Mayor and councillors. which tells part of the story. John Coughlin, the sole Green Councillor allowed himself the luxury of voting …
Europe’s winding road to Copyright Reform
This one of my recovered Storifies originally published in 2015. Over the last six months things have been moving on Copyright Reform in the European Union. On the 19th February, the new Copyright Directive’s rapporteur, the now sole Pirate Party MEP, Julia Reda, released her report, on which the JURI committee and later EP debates will take place. If you look at posts here and on my wiki published in 2018, you’ll get an idea as to how things changed.
Digital Question Time
I went up to Blackfriars to techUK’s offices to listen to their Digital Question time. They had arranged for Vaizey, Onawurah and Huppert to speak. I covered the event using storify, which I moved here, after storify terminated their service.
I originally said on this blog that they covered privacy, access and inclusion, start-ups, brexit (briefly) and government IT. Computer Weekly have hosted a video here…, if you want the complete story. The Guardian ran a story, “Vaizey calls for tech firms to ‘meet politicians halfway’ over encryption” and sub-titled, “Debate needs …
No more secrets for you!
After Paris, the road to more surveillance
London Labour Conference 2014
A recovered stroy from storify created to document London Labour’s Conference.
This is published as at the date created. …
Election Day in Deptford (2014)
Here’s my Storify for Election Day in 2014, Council Eelections and Euro MPs
Labour & Rent Controls
A glimmer of hope, as Sadiq Kahn, Labour’s Shadow Minister for London argues for rent controls as part of Labour’s Manifesto, at the Fabian Society New Year conference; he sparks a debate with powerful allies and opponents.
The end of the road from Falkirk
The final findings of the Collins Review into Labour Party Reform have been leaking into the public domain over the last few days, I originally felt it best to have my say on Storify, The story is now available here, see below.