Category Archives: Democracy

Mick Morgan: here’s why pay twice?

2015-06-11 by mjr

http://baldric.net/2015/06/05/why-pay-twice/ asks why the government hires civilians to monitor social media instead of just giving GC HQ the keywords. Us cripples aren’t allowed to comment there (physical ability test) so I reply here: It’s pretty obvious that they have probably … Continue reading →

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Rebooting democracy? The case for a citizens constitutional convention.

2015-02-20 by mjr

I’m getting increasingly cynical about our largest organisations and their voting-centred approach to democracy. You vote once, for people rather than programmes, then you’re meant to leave them to it for up to three years until they stand for reelection … Continue reading →

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Request for West Norfolk to Complete the PCC Consultation

2014-01-09 by mjr

Please excuse the intrusion to your usual software and co-op news items but vine seems broken and as part of my community and democratic interests, I’d like to share this short clip quoting Norfolk’s Deputy Police Commissioner Jenny McKibben about … Continue reading →

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Misusing a Royal Baby and Child Porn to Censor The Internet

2013-07-23 by mjr

There’s been some media coverage at the start of this week about blocking child porn. Except it’s not about child porn – that’s a trojan horse. People who want to access pornography that is already illegal (Protection of Children Act … Continue reading →

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Debian Project Leader 2013 election campaign links: part 1

2013-03-15 by mjr

This is basically a link-post to the Debian Project Leader election email discussions on GMANE’s blog-style interface to debian-vote. After only 3 days of the 21, there’s already a pageful, so if I don’t start collecting links now, I’ll probably … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Consensus

2013-02-21 by mjr

The constitution of the debian operating system project says things like “consistent with the consensus of the opinions of the Developers” at various points but doesn’t say how strong a consensus or how the project will test for consensus. I … Continue reading →

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Please vote for police commissioners

2012-11-15 by mjr

Contrary to http://blog.einval.com/2012/11/13, I’ve just been and voted (four times, or 2×2 – one for me, one as a proxy) for a police and crime commissioner. I agree with much of what Steve writes and more besides. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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Adrift @coopsutd in @coopParty workshop

2012-11-07 by mjr

Sometimes I felt at home at Cooperatives United, like at the wonderful fringe dinner at Eighth Day last Thursday night. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the flood, like at the cooperative party workshop on Friday morning. The workshop addressed the … Continue reading →

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Elected as @theCooperative member delegate

2012-10-06 by mjr

Thank you to the co-operative group Cambridge and East Anglia area for electing me as their member delegate to the national half-yearly meeting and annual general meeting. Please tell me what you’d like me to do (such as comment here … Continue reading →

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Co-operatives Fortnight, an interview with me!

2012-07-13 by mjr

For Co-operatives Fortnight this year (finished 7 July I think), I was a guest on the CyberUnions show. It was titled “This is What Democracy Looks Like in a Workplace” and you can download it as a podcast from http://s.coop/q1af … Continue reading →

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