On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy …
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Trade Union Law Reform
I am considering policy making on the subject of Trade Union Law reform, here are my notes!
Read moreDr. Fritz Scharpf
I had cause to look at, I have not yet finished the following paper, “The asymmetry of European integration, or why the EU cannot be a ‘social market economy’” or here at Berlin Free University.. written by Dr. Fritz Scharpf, a German Academic who finished his working career as the Director at the Max Planck Institute…
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Lewisham Council’s Democracy Review
Lewisham Council, are looking at their constitution to see if they make it more democratic. They are running a consultation which started in 2018 and is planned to finish and I propose to submit some evidence. I thought I understood how it worked, but I don’t; here are my notes.
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Measuring Democracy
Often one finds that people argue their solution is more democratic; how does one know? Some political scientists have looked at measuring democracyness, here’s what I have found.
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On the ECHR and its conflict with UK law
Here’s some links about the ECHR and why its a marmite issue in British Politics.
Read moreCorbyn’s 10 Point Plan
In the 2016 Labour Leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn made 10 pledges, which were then adopted by Conference 2016. The pledges have disappeared from the site, but I checked on the wayback machine and have made this image from that site’s pledge page.
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Labour Conference 2018
Let’s see if I can make it three in a row, here’s my document repo, for #lab18, Labour Conference 18.
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Yet more Copyright
Last week, the JURE committee of the European Voted to approve the current draft of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market this includes proposals to implement a link tax and that ISSPs must implement something akin to Google’s Content ID, to defend copyright from whatever. These are now it seems called upload filters….
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IUSY 77
I attended the IUSY 77 Congress in Stuttgart, as part of the Labour Students delegation and stayed for the summer camp. I still remember some of the fabulous conversations I had and the amazing campaigning comrades that I met from the (West) German JUSOS and other parties across the world. Were you there? Do you…
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Stability & Growth Pact
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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GDPR & the US Privacy Shield
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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Labour Conference 2017
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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On D’Hondt
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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Corbyn on Digital
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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