Surprisingly, one of the critical issues leading to Starmer’s resignation was a disagreement within the cabinet about the defence budget and strategy. I have persistently argued that Labour’s defence party strategy was aimed at defending labour’s right against his left rather than the country against any threats. The government has now published what they call…
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I am trying to draft an NPF reference back on Immigration.
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A number of Green led councils are having problems fulfilling their promises, on housing, and disinvestment. Lewisham Greens manifesto is published here, and I have made a mirror. It is also available on the wayback machine, as is the its landing page. The final line on the manifesto web page is, Lewisham already has everything…
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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 found this paper, Term limits in parliamentary mandates – Democratic renewal or disruption? published by the European Parliament. I note that they are more common in Presidential republics, as in…
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The key responsibilities in Government for IT delivery, and AI have moved, swapped even; regulation remains at DDCMS.
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This needs to be checked off my list, my Portugal stay was business only.
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This is the first draft of this note, which will focus on the Mexican upper house, known as the Senate of the Republic.
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I am trying to write something on the undesirability of unitary presidents, or over-powerful first amongst equals within collective executives.
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While considering the recent disposition of HMG’s re-organisation as it impacts the IT industry, I did some querying. I took the view that HMG has three domains of concern, regulation, macro-investment and implementation. Within implementation programmes, there is a massive problem of scale and probably divergent requirements.
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I have looked for this a couple of times, but found it last night. From Labour’s Rules, “The Labour Party does not tolerate electoral fraud”
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Another friend asks for advice I’m building a website. Ghost has been suggested, which led me to have a little look. This note looks at what I consider to be the critical selection criteria and make some notes about ghost and flat file CMS.
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I have picked this up as a project, certainly it takes up enough room and I haven’t looked at it for a while. I am quite looking forward to reviewing the UK and iron-curtain eastern European stamps. It was put together by my mum and her family and so it covers an extensive time period….
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Andy Burnham, the likely next leader of the Labour Party made a speech on Monday 29th June, from the People’s History Museum in Salford. I have linked to the Sky News video of the speech. I have captured the transcript and post it below/overleaf. This may differ from the speech due to inaccuracies in youtube’s…
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A lot is being written about why Starmer had to go, I think this sums it up. …
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Despite the many pages I have tagged AI, I need another to document my sources as I seek to understand how it works and why GPUs are required. This is by no way finished.
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