On the racist rioting, I wrote a blog article, but didn’t use all the things I found and so here they are. My notes and links …
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Housing Policy 2024
A note on Housing policy and the opportunities under a Labour Government. I assume they want more affordable houses both to allow people a better home and create demand and income. …
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The King’s Speech
The first monarch’s speech to Parliament written by a Labour Government in many years. It is reviewed by the Guardian, who welcome it as radical but not revolutionary departure from their predecessors empowering the state to make life better for people. They conclude by saying, The conditions of frustration that have fuelled far-right insurgencies in…
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The General Election 2024
On the 4th July 2024, the UK held a general election. Here are my notes and links …
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Where did the votes come from?
I think these are very powerful, a sankey diagram showing where the 2024 votes came from, by YouGov using Flourish as the visualisation tool.
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Labour’s Manifesto ’24
Labour published its manifesto this week, it is available on the web, and I have made a mirror. I made the mirror months ago, I made this post in Oct 24, and backdated to about the time the manifesto was published.
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Democratising the EU
The CTOE has published a manifesto of demands for democracy; we have examined those European Parties with manifestos for the European Parliament elections this year and have scored them against our 10 demands. The results are published on the CTOE blog site, The European Party Manifestos: Who is Afraid of Democracy? Overleaf/below, are further comments…
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Nord VPN, my notes
I have bought/subscribe to NordVPN and was recently taught how necessary it is. Here my notes, and links …
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My grand tour, Venice & back
To Venice and back by train, via Paris, Florence, Lecco & Chur, my notes and links. It was a delightful surprise to find I was traveling over the Bernina Pass. …
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Rhodes
After my trip to Turkey, I feel that I should visit Rhodes, it may be my next destination or if I can work out how to do it properly an interesting way of arriving at Fethiye. Here are my notes on visiting Rhodes. …
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Border checks, finally
On the 30th April 2024, the UK introduced physical inspection for imported goods from the EU. This has been delayed five times due to an unpreparedness of the agencies and a fear of the economic consequences with price rises and shortages predicted. The EU have been conducting these checks since 1st Jan 2021. There is…
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Solaris
Some resurgent interest in Solaris has made me check what I still have. Here as ever are my notes …
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EU Citizen? Vote!
Some EU citizen’s residents in the UK will be able to vote in the upcoming #EuropeanParliament elections. The infographic below, shows which countries are offering to permit this, and how they mean to make this happen. Some will offer postal votes, some will organise polling stations in the UK and Estonia is offering internet voting….
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Dieppe
Maybe I’ll check this out?
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Platform Socialism
James Muldoon has written a book, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Futures, reviewed here, and was invited by the “Different Class” programme to join a seminar discussing it. When I first heard of the book, and read reviews I wasn’t impressed. A lot of what he said has been said before however on…
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