Starmer and Reeves have made speeches on the economy. Here are my notes and some commentaries.
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La Rochelle
Shall I go to La Rochelle, my notes and links …
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The Forde Report
After the leak of the document entitled ‘The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019′, the Starmer led NEC commissioned an enquiry into the leak. I documented the report in an article called Labour and that leak on this wiki. As I said then, in July 2022, Labour’s…
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Data Protection Act 2022
The government issued a consultation on the Data Protection law; it was commonly felt that they were attempting to allow itself to monetise the personal data of citizens, especially through the NHS data files. Whether after their response, it is felt to be so threatening is another matter. Here are my notes …
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The EU and defence policy
I have a couple of notes on defence policy on this wiki. All recent white papers have emphasised that the defence capability we build is onky capable of success if working with allies. The primary military alliance is of course NATO, which has over the last 30 years concerned itself with “out of theatre” operations….
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Long Range Rocket Launchers
I had no idea that the British Army had multiple long range rocket launchers. Here are my notes. …
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Making Bread
I decided to finally make some bread. I started with one of Jack’s recipes, obviously the second will be better than the first. It tasted fine, I made a bit of mess and the kneading could have gone better.
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Chile’s new constitution
In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.
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UN Periodic Review
The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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The EU’s sclerosis, fault or feature?
Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
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For those interested in Labour’s new proscription rules this is the central list of Prohibited Acts …
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Travel to Strasbourg
This is a trick, plane or train? It’s an arse-ache to get to cheaply (and quickly). Here’s what I have found.
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Labour in for Britain
While in Berlin, I saw a post bitching about Corbyn and Starmer’s contribution to Brexit, and remembered that Labour’s RemaIN campaign run by the then legacy leadership was also weak. I know that the doorstep operation was weakened by the lack of commitment of the party and the exhaustion from the local elections that had…
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Towards a new theme
I can’t make the Nulis theme work with modals and there’s been a problem with CSS for a while; I am planning to switch my theme again. I have collected whole bunch, and have short-listed I like Cronus, which is a derivative of Tempo. Nulis and Cronus seem to have been abandoned. Here are my…
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Tanks
I needed to extract what I said about Tanks from my piece on the 2021 Defence White Paper as it took a lot of space on a peripheral issue. What I captured was the leaks before publication which suggested that the Tanks were going to be chopped, and then comments on the white paper’s outcome….
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