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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Chile’s new constitution
In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.
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UN Periodic Review
The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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The EU’s sclerosis, fault or feature?
Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
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For those interested in Labour’s new proscription rules this is the central list of Prohibited Acts …
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Labour in for Britain
While in Berlin, I saw a post bitching about Corbyn and Starmer’s contribution to Brexit, and remembered that Labour’s RemaIN campaign run by the then legacy leadership was also weak. I know that the doorstep operation was weakened by the lack of commitment of the party and the exhaustion from the local elections that had…
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Tanks
I needed to extract what I said about Tanks from my piece on the 2021 Defence White Paper as it took a lot of space on a peripheral issue. What I captured was the leaks before publication which suggested that the Tanks were going to be chopped, and then comments on the white paper’s outcome….
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Chasing Financial Crime
I am working up another article on Corruption and had cause to look at how the private sector is pursued. The answer is by public sector bodies who produce reports on how effective they are. Here are my links and notes.
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EUMANS in Warsaw.
EUMANS held a conference to co-incide with the COFOE plenary 4. Some of the CTOE members spoke at the conference. Here are my notes and links.
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Bought Britain
Originally subtitled, evidence of Russia’s receipts. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reminded every one of the way in which British Politics has been sold. Sanctions were applied slowly and incompletely. We are out of the EU. Here are my notes and links
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Global Compact on Immigration
Look what happens when one’s not concentrating, the UN promulgated a global compact on migration, which passed overwhelmingly and then caused a backlash in the political classes in Europe. Here are my notes and links …
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