Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill

It seems that GoNads screwed up the Tories first attempt to amend the 2018 Data Protection Act which implemented the GDPR in the UK. The current data regulation regime has earned the UK an adequacy ruling from the EU commission. This page documents my thoughts on this current attempt to amend the law.

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Labour’s turning point?

Over the second half of September, a couple of things happened with respect to the Labour Party’s position on relations with the EU. I want to write something punchy, and made this page to collect my sources and shape m thoughts. This may not be easy to read because it as yet has no narrative….

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About the Eurofighter, and its future

What’s happening to the Eurofighter Typhoon? Do we need a replacement, and who’s going to build it? In this article, What does the future hold for Eurofighter Typhoon?, Air Force Technology suggest that it’s design is old, and that the older versions are being retired; they argue that the Tempest programme is an upgrade programme…

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Ralph Miliband

I decided to look at his writing, and have started Parliamentary Socialism, but I was pointed at at an article he wrote in the run up to the 1964 election, called “If Labour wins”, republished in the New Left Review. This led me to write a blog article, which required me to look at some…

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Germany and debt fetishism

The stability and growth pact (SGP) is the EU’s public debt management rules and embedded in a separate treaty to the T[F]EU treaties. I have commented on these treaties elsewhere on this wiki. Elsewhere in several articles, on the blog, I criticise the SGP on my blog, including here, here, and here. My main criticism…

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Labour’s Programme 2023

Labour 2023, National Policy Forum by rule responsible for proposing a programme to Conference took place behind closed doors. TL:DR, the leadership got what they wanted, “there’s no money” and it seems f’all compassion and solidarity. They obviously learnt from their own ambush of Ed Miliband in 2014. This meeting was “behind closed doors” and…

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Social Media, campaigning and fake news

One of the reports about the Uxbridge and S Ruislip by-election concentrates on the way in which anti ULEZ propaganda was circulated on Twitter. The report was posted on Twitter by Valent Projects, who claimed to be a consultancy specialising in combating fake news with a preference for working with progressive causes. They might seem…

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By-elections 20th July but mainly Uxbridge.

At the by-elections last week, the three main parties won one each, with a disappoint for the decent amongst us that the Tories held Uxbrige and South Ruislip. There is a big furore over the Labour campaign where the Tories and those close to Labour’s Leadership claiming that the Mayor’s ULEZ scheme lost it for…

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What about the Euro?

Should we campaign to rejoin the Euro? In my blog article, Say no to extrawürst, I look at Niall Ò Conghaile’s arguments on EU re-entry terms and dovetail them with my realisation that the UK’s previous unique deal and its opt-outs are gone. I have felt there is room for a deal on the Euro…

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One step beyond

Labour have are investigating Neal Lawson for a prohibited act, the reality is no-one is safe. Here are some notes and links….

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Progressive Alliance, not so fast

Someone in my feeds raised the question as to whether there was an anti-progressive alliance bias to Labour’s NEC’s approval/prohibition of local government coalitions. I looked to see if Compass had anything on it, but it seems not but I found these two links. …

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Spain elects 2023

The Spanish are having a general election, it is/was unexpected and called by the Government after the governing coalition lost seriously in regional elections. (An ignored lesson for some maybe).

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