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Dave on Anti-Brexit websites
I was considering the effectiveness of Brexit Spotlight and it was suggested I look at it’s pseudo-competitors. Here are my notes …
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Dave on On (2) founding fathers
Various reading and musing has led me to the foundation of the United States, not the least, my studying of the history of Mexico. I wrote a little piece on the its founding, on my blog, interestingly called https://davelevy.info/subsidiarity-representation-and-human-rights/. I say interestingly, because the title has little to suggest it is about US governance and its constitution.
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Dave on Empire Windrush Scandal
The scandal, which broke in April 2018, saw the UK government apologise for deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens’ children. Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
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Dave on Ubiquitous Messaging
Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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Dave on Israeli election system.
There’s a general election in Israel; famously it has a a fissiparous PR system. Here is a note on how it works as far as I can tell and been told.. …
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Dave on TUC Congress 2022
This was postponed, due to the death of the Queen and reconvened in October. Here is the record of business and my unadorned notes …
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Dave on Was the referendum bought? By Dirk Laabs
A german (ZDF) take on the referendum, in German, this page has a link to the video and the german language script, ….
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Dave on Deference
How important is the existence of deference and its decline, or otherwise to British Politics. My notes and links …
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Dave on Kier Starmer’s at Lab22
This is available on youtube and as text, it is to my mind one of the best he’s given; he’s clearly more comfortable with the role than previously. The last 11 months of a polling lead which was to leap the following day will have helped, but I hope they don’t believe their propaganda that the May 22 elections was an historic validation of Starmer’s Labour, there were victories but also losses. I have read the speech trying to identify policy promises as opposed to feel-good slogans and anti-tory rhetoric; here are my notes.
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Dave on Labour Conference 2022
And now we have #lab22, starting on Sunday, here are my notes …
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Dave on Labour’s Membership
I had a look at the financial reports and plotted Labour’s membership over the last 10 years and then added another 20. Here are my notes …
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Dave on How to make an EU citizens’ assembly
On making a Citizen’s assembly happen within the European Union
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Dave on About Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen, became the 1st woman President of the EU’s college of commissioners on 1st Dec 2019. Her appointment was controversial because she was not one of the spitzencanditaten. The record of her commission is documented on wikipedia. I became interested in this when trying to understand how and why the CoFoE was launched. Here are my notes on her appointment.
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Dave on On Sunak’s Macroeconomics
While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.
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Dave on 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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