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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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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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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Deference
How important is the existence of deference and its decline, or otherwise to British Politics. My notes and links …
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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…
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Labour Conference 2022
And now we have #lab22, starting on Sunday, here are my notes …
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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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How to make an EU citizens’ assembly
On making a Citizen’s assembly happen within the European Union, with comments about citizen assemblies elsewhere in the world. Originally written in August 22, and amended as per the comments.
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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…
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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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Labour and Macroeconomics July 2022
Starmer and Reeves have made speeches on the economy. Here are my notes and some commentaries.
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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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