I’m very pleased about the yes result in the Referendum on further powers for the National Assembly. These powers will ultimately benefit Wales. This post is only partly about that, it’s certainly not an attempt to sum up the total of my views on the subject – or give you a general picture. I think [...]
It’s sad to see the end of Kruger magazine. I’ve been away for a while in the USA recently but intended to mark the event in a fitting manner. The next few posts on this blog will be some of my occasional Kruger writings from the archives, originally published in the magazine. The first issue [...]
George Monbiot speech part 1: George Monbiot speech part 2: Audience questions and George Monbiot’s answers: Here George Monbiot speaks about the Copenhagen summit, climate change and about Wales’ sustainable energy requirements, recorded at the Pierhead Sessions event in Cardiff. If you didn’t attend the event it’s well worth sitting through the whole thing. At [...]
13 January 2010 – 9:00 PM
Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up. This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed. It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in books, britain, england, politics, uk, wales
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Also tagged A Useful Fiction, britain, democracy, devolution, Gordon Brown, Northern Ireland, Patrick Hannan, Scotland, Tony Blair
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24 November 2009 – 3:26 PM
Here’s a fun conversation starter about Wales and attempts to give it a “global brand”. I have a mixed attitude to marketing people. The ones I agree with are good. The rest are weasels.
11 November 2009 – 12:14 PM
I went to a public meeting at the Assembly buildings in Cardiff last night, which was a chance to meet Wales’ new Cross-Party Digital Group and have a discussion to answer the question: “How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?”. The members of [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in politics, wales
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Also tagged blog, broadband, data, digitalwales, engagement, facebook, open, openness, politics, posterous, wiki
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11 November 2009 – 10:45 AM
I’m going to be writing more about politics on this blog. My interest is how politics might relate to technology, business and “ordinary” people in the UK – with a particular emphasis on Wales. As a personal rule I try and stay away from the various personalities and day-to-day machinations, allegiances, squabblings, who wore what [...]
Below is some full background to this, but in summary TheyWorkForYou are looking for volunteer coders interested in working on Welsh Assembly data. If that’s you, please join the new discussion list and let’s figure out how to do it. If you don’t know TheyWorkForYou then take some time to familiarise yourself. It’s a well [...]
Just a couple of days ago, I mentioned some really odd police posters I’d seen in Cardiff. This isn’t about those posters. (At least those police ones were trying to make some kind of valid point, but failed.) It’s about the ones that say “These chemicals won’t be used in a bomb because a neighbour [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in britain, england, places, politics, uk, wales
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Also tagged anti-terrorist hotline, caerdydd, cardiff, cory doctorow, cymru, fear, grangetown, liberty, posters, terror
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