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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 July 2023 English

7th July 2023 This is a close reading and exposition of the letter sent on behalf of Twitter to Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and chief executive officer of Meta. The …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 July 2023 English

6 July 2023 Threads is the the social media platform of the day. (My Threads account is here – and the early impressions are positive, though further functionality needs to …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 July 2023 English

3rd July 2023 Over on Twitter, the estimable Dr Cath Haddon is live-tweeting a talk from a former cabinet minister to the Institute of Government: Here is an idea for …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 July 2023 English

1st July 2023 * The overlooked obstacle to the United Kingdom withdrawing from the ECHR * From time to time the demand comes from a government minister, or from one …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 June 2023 English

29th June 2023 Today the Court of Appeal ruled that the United Kingdom government’s controversial Rwanda removals policy was unlawful. The judgment is here and there is a court-prepared summary …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 June 2023 English

27 June 2023 A sensible policy proposal to monitor the recommendations of coroners’ inquests * * “How did this person die?” In any organised society this is one of the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 June 2023 English

26th June 2023 In the words of the eminent jurist Paul Simon: “Time, time, time See what’s become of me “Time, time, time See what’s become of me While I …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 June 2023 English

25th June 2023 Here is a painting of an empty city. It is a perfect, bright, ideal(ised) empty Renaissance cityscape. And here is another (almost) empty though less cheerful cityscape: …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 June 2023 English

23rd June 2023 I hope all of you had a happy midsummer* – and now it will be another year before we get this much sunlight again. My website had …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 June 2023 English

Midsummer Day, 2023 There are now big political names giving oral evidence at the Covid Inquiry for the first “module” covering the preparedness of the government for a pandemic. This …