I originally made this page in 2018, to collect my notes on the single market and the stability and growth pact. The pandemic blew the EU of course on this with most of the economies of the EU missing their macro economic goals; the Stability & Growth Pact commits its signatories to keeping to an annual…
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I have just come back from a course on European Data Protection, the issue of standard clauses and Trans-Atlantic data flows was raised, I decided to blog on it, here are some links that I used.
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I made a document archive of Labour Conference 2016, and thought I’d see if I could do so for 2017, it might take some time since I wasn’t a delegate this year, although I built the 2016 archive from membersnet.
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For the European Parliament election in Great Britain and Greater London Authority City wide list, a form of PR is used. Parties register lists of candidates, and voters vote for their preferred party. The counting is done using a method called the Dhondt method. This note describes the counting method and shows how an excel spreadsheet…
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In the 2016, Labour Leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn issued a digital manifesto, it is currently on the web here … and I have uploaded it to this site here… .
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They have it here, my copy is here .. Labour Manifesto 2017
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A friend was doing some research and so I went and found these documents; the conference documents of #lab16. They weren’t hard to find; they are currently on membersnet. I may continue this as a series and I have previously mirrored the rules here, and have also republished the Collins Report on that page. I have…
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An unfinished white Paper by Emmanuelle Avril of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. The paper is called, The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour: Party Leadership vs Party Management in the British Labour Party. and was presented to the Political Studies Association 2015 conference, in March so before the election. The abstract states,
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Here is an image documenting the six data protection principles embedded in the GDPR. I made this using powerpoint and got the pictures from flickr and later from Unsplash. This page both established a URL and allows me to document the image credits. In 2023, I reworked the Principles graphic, which has its own URL.
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In 2013, AFAIK, the United Nations General Assembly, passed the UN Human Rights Commission proposal, The right to privacy in the digital age, the results of this led to the establishment of a Special Rapporteur on Privacy reporting to the OHRC. The SRoP reports once/year to the Human Rights Committee and once each year to…
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The Investigatory Powers Bill became Law earlier this week. Interestingly the noise and criticism was turned up after the Royal Assent and a Government Site petition opposing the Law reached 1500,000 signatures in a week. I had reason to perform some research on what the Law actually says, and here are my notes and links.
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Some notes and links pertaining to the GDPR,
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Im wrote in 2016, “As we know the Tories are having a second go at rigging the General Elections”. It seemed they didn’t need to and have dropped the plans. For some reason I originally made this private but lifted the constraint in Nov 2020. Here are my notes and links,
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For people casual acquainted with political theory, we know that dictators quite like plebiscites in a way that they dislike parliaments. We can see in the UK, the way in which some of the Brexiteers, but not their leadership, are frightened of both parliament’s consideration of interpreting the referendum result and/or running a second one.
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I used diigo to make some notes on MIFID II. I have transcribed those notes to this wiki.
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