An amalgamation of several musings with additional thoughts I keep on seeing comments about sticking to Labour’s values, principles or roots, and I’m really confused, I’m not sure a lot of people realise the roots they are actually talking about, for instance, looking at all previous Labour PM’s before Blair: Ramsey MacDonald, first Labour PM, […]
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The EU Referendum: Everything Change but...
So the country has chosen to leave, 38% of the electorate choosing that option, 36.5% remaining and 25.5% simply didn’t vote. A lot of people are rejoicing and a lot of people are quite terrified, but really there’s no reason to rejoice and there’s no reason to panic, because in all reality, whilst everything has […]
Musings on the EU Referendum
So here are my thoughts finally… I see absolutely no reason why we would want to leave. As part of the EU, and due to being part of the EU, we have become the 5th largest economy in the world, potentially soon to be 4th if we remain. We have access to the largest trading […]
Labour Party MPs ALL have a Mandate
I am a lifelong Labour Party member and supporter, I never left the party at any point, and support them now, just as much as I did in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. I live in a constituency that was up until 1997 a Tory stronghold, but have been fortunate that ever since 1997 we’ve […]
Student Engagement
Attached is the Wilkinson, Lancaster presentation on Student Engagement, presentated a the Charterered Association of Business Schools Conference, 2016. How Technology can be used to Engage Higher Education Learners in Business, Management and Law Disciplines
Updating Static Site to HTML5 & CSS3
It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with the ‘old’ version of my website, especially since having the new domain of www.rdwilkinson.me.uk now registered and up and running. But I decided I’d update this site to the new HTML5 and CSS3 standards to stand as a better static demonstration site. This can now […]
Labour Party Formation
A lot of the current crop of new members need to actually learn the history of the Labour Party and why it was formed. Keir Hardie was a Liberal socialist and Scottish Independence Campaigner, who believed that the only way to break the Tory hold on power to gain Independence (which he never achieved) was […]
The Media’s Influence is Negligible
From Reddit The idea that the media has an overwhelming effect on the population in shaping their views is a popular and overstated one. Most the time it had little direct impact on the political process in tangible results, i.e. 40% of The Sun’s readership are defined as ‘strong’ Labour voters, who will vote for […]
Microsoft Dynamics Boot Camp
In May of 2015 I ran a Microsoft Dynamics boot camp for third year students and recent graduates at BCU The boot camp went extremely well and was hailed as a great success by Microsoft and their partners that were involved in the event. The impact of the event was that 20+ job and interview […]
New Old Labour
It appears that already the Labour Party is once more just talking to itself, indeed arguing with itself, and not listening to what those outside the party are saying and feeling. Outside of the 500,000 ‘members’, including those talking away on social media, the rest of the country really don’t see today as anything but […]