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Electoral Reformer: Ten Reasons To Vote YES to the Alternative Vote (AV)
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Vote YES to the Alternative Vote On May 5th. The Alternative Vote Explained. Ten Reasons To Vote YES to the Alternative Vote (A. Ten Reasons To Vote YES to the Alternative Vote (AV). 1 If you have ever said to someone going to the shops - "get me a coke or if they haven't got that I'll have a lemonade', then you understand the principle behind AV voting. It only sounds complicated if you explain it badly, which the No campaigners are doing on purpose (finding the most wordy academic text they can). Our p...
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About | Duncan's Economic Blog
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Duncan’s Economic Blog. I spent a couple of years working as an economist at the Bank of England and then four years in fund management, ending up as a partner in a small firm. After this I worked for the Labour Party as Research Officer in HQ and then as Economic Advisor to the Acting Leader before joining an international trade union confederation. I’m now Senior Policy Officer at the TUC. The blog reflects my own views. Contactable at: duncanweldon (at) yahooDOTcoDOTuk.
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The £12bn blackhole: What Next? | Duncan's Economic Blog
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Duncan’s Economic Blog. The 12bn blackhole: What Next? By duncanseconomicblog on September 19, 2011. Today’s FT story on the structural deficit is potentially very big news. As the paper reports:. The Financial Times has replicated the model of government borrowing used by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which suggests the structural deficit in 2011-12 is now 12bn higher than thought, a rise of 25 per cent. Presumably they used this OBR briefing paper.
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Electoral Reformer: January 2011
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Vote YES to the Alternative Vote On May 5th. The Alternative Vote Explained. Ten Reasons To Vote YES to the Alternative Vote (A. Monday, 24 January 2011. BBC Act Strange Over Electoral 'Reform'. According to today's Independent. The BBC has told its journalists not to use the word 'reform' when talking about .err. well.ahem! Electoral reform. Apparently reform is too positive a word that compromises their impartial approach when talking about the forthcoming referendum on the Alternative Vote. We have co...
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Zebra Red: Google Wave and peer-to-peer publishing
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Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Friday, 29 May 2009. Google Wave and peer-to-peer publishing. This is fascinating. An example of how the hierarchy of peer-to-peer publishing can disintegrate almost entirely and yet serve a far wider purpose than is currently the case. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs. Books as part of the problem. How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card. So is this format-shifting of a ...
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Zebra Red: Dan Hind on coalitional publishing
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Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Dan Hind on coalitional publishing. Here's an interesting idea: coalitional publishing. Another example of bringing the market to where the customer already finds him- or herself instead of requiring the latter to make the effort of moving towards the former? As Dan points out:. The Advantages of Coalitional Publishing. People who are regular readers of openDemocracy. Won’t d...
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Zebra Red: "Books are almost standing in the way of what publishing is becoming now"
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Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Saturday, 31 October 2009. Books are almost standing in the way of what publishing is becoming now". A video interview between peers on the subject of how books are rapidly getting in the way of the basic aim of good publishing. That is to say, aggregating authors for interested readers and aggregating readers for interesting authors. So how about this as a definition of a book? A plague of ISPs. The BBC ...
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Zebra Red: How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card
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Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Sunday, 21 June 2009. How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card. Well It had me up till 3 o'clock in the morning, as these things are wont to do. But I got there in the end. Here are the (currently) pertinent links. All I can say is this worked for me. I take no responsibility if it doesn't work for you! Go to geteasypeasy.com. And click on the download link. If you haven't already, put your 8...
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Electoral Reformer: June 2010
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Vote YES to the Alternative Vote On May 5th. The Alternative Vote Explained. Ten Reasons To Vote YES to the Alternative Vote (A. Friday, 18 June 2010. List based proportional representation is the system used by nearly all developed nations in the world, except the Anglo-Saxon nations. There are variations and hybridised versions that meld with first-past-the-post while keeping the proportionality, but basically modern democracies have list PR. The so called disadvantages of List PR pale into insignifica...
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Zebra Red: On aggregating, harvesting and republishing existing blogs
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Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Wednesday, 15 April 2009. On aggregating, harvesting and republishing existing blogs. What's this post all about then? As I said yesterday, YourMagz is beginning to look like a good place to start. Here, the interested parties in question have decided to set up uniform blogging platforms with differing aims in each case - but similar problems. Blogging, at its best, involves highly individual voices s...
