Boundary changes: Winners and losers

The BBC have an article on the electoral ward boundary changes. London looses Brent East. The BBCs prediction for the larger seats that gain territory from Brent East are ‘labour marginal’.

February 5, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Goldsmiths Debating Society

There is talk about resurecting the ‘Smiths Debating Society… check out the wiki and add yourself if you are interested in this.

January 30, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

political firsts...

I’m interested in starting an e-journal of politics essays written by Goldsmiths students - want to help make it happen? The only requirement for publishing being that the essay received a First when marked. Publishing would be under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License. Drop me an email at my goldsmiths account (ss601rd@…) or leave comments here.

January 30, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

new year, new blog, still no overall control...

I’ve been occupied with my Study of the Political for most hours of the last quarter of 2006 and have had precious little time for anything other. My blogs BEC and STMP have not been updated in months… a sad state of affairs really. Furthermore proposed boundary changes and my moving plans mean changes! Brent East will no longer exist so BEC will need to be revised. Sarah Teather may no longer be my MP with the obvious implications for the STMP blog…....

January 16, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

freemind

previously at the gold.socialtools.org web project…this year I’ve been posting my lecture notes on my wiki at robdyke.com/goldsmiths. I’ve been using Freemind to make my notes in lectures. From the wiki the source of my notes can be downloaded and editted. Wikka Wiki includes the java viewer so the mind maps can be viewed with a web browser.

December 1, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke