Starmer met Ursula Von Der Leyen in Brussels yesterday. It seems they couldn’t agree on what to say. Here are my notes and links …
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Duffield resigns the Labour Whip
Another split in the European Left?
Euronews reports a split in the European left group in the new European Parliament, this is followed up by some further reporting. I have not yet finished my reading, but this does not seem particularly strategic or even political. The left beyond the Social Democrats was pretty spit anyway between an independent presence, the European…
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Labour Conference 2024
Here is my #lab 24 page. Conference is to be in Liverpool again.
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A note on impressionism
Over the last two years I have visited a number of art galleries and admired some specific impressionist paintings, Here are a few from Berlin’s Neues Museum, the National Museum of Wales, the Musee D’Orsay and the National Museum of Catlan Art (MNAC) in Barcelona.
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Home IT Projects (Summer 2024)
Here we go, I have them on a todo list, albeit on a hidden page, but I need to record the links somewhere …
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European Conservatives and Reformists
I had some interest in the ECR after the European Parliament elections, as they became the third largest party, and so made this page. The group was jointly founded by the British Tories as they build their off-ramp to Brexit and left the EPP. The parliamentary group is constructed for each parliament; in the 10th…
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Meadway on Graeber
James Meadway brought David Graeber’s work to my attention in a long article which I have annotated on diigo. The article pointed me at some further reading, most interestingly for me, he posits that the Silicon revolution changes the way power is exercised and at the end references Kate Pistor’s advocacy of Data Trusts. Here…
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The 2024 Riots
On the racist rioting, I wrote a blog article, but didn’t use all the things I found and so here they are. My notes and links …
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Housing Policy 2024
A note on Housing policy and the opportunities under a Labour Government. I assume they want more affordable houses both to allow people a better home and create demand and income. …
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The King’s Speech
The first monarch’s speech to Parliament written by a Labour Government in many years. It is reviewed by the Guardian, who welcome it as radical but not revolutionary departure from their predecessors empowering the state to make life better for people. They conclude by saying, The conditions of frustration that have fuelled far-right insurgencies in…
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The General Election 2024
On the 4th July 2024, the UK held a general election. Here are my notes and links …
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Where did the votes come from?
I think these are very powerful, a sankey diagram showing where the 2024 votes came from, by YouGov using Flourish as the visualisation tool.
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Democratising the EU
The CTOE has published a manifesto of demands for democracy; we have examined those European Parties with manifestos for the European Parliament elections this year and have scored them against our 10 demands. The results are published on the CTOE blog site, The European Party Manifestos: Who is Afraid of Democracy? Overleaf/below, are further comments…
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Nord VPN, my notes
I have bought/subscribe to NordVPN and was recently taught how necessary it is. Here my notes, and links …
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