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Top story: Mew-turn by Cabinet Office as government gets two new cats | Politic… www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at 00:26:50
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Chilcot’s blind spot: Iraq War report buries oil evidence, fails to address motive | openDemocracy
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/david-whyte/chilcot-s-oil-blind-spot-in-iraq-war-reportMost important of these is oil. Buried in deep in volume 9 of the 2.6 million-word report, Chilcot refers to government documents that explicitly state the oil objective, and outlining how Britain pursued that objective throughout the occupation. But he does not consider this evidence in his analysis or conclusions. Oil considerations do not even appear in the report’s 150-page summary.
To many people around the world, it was obvious that oil was a central issue, as Iraq itself had nearly a tenth of the world’s oil reserves, and together with its neighbouring countries nearly two thirds. There was a clear public interest in understanding how that affected UK decisions. Chilcot failed to explore it.
Section 10.3 of the report, in volume 9, records that senior government officials met secretly with BP and Shell on at several occasions (denied at the time) to discuss their commercial interests in obtaining contracts. Chilcot did not release the minutes, but we had obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act: they are posted here. In unusually expressive terms for a civil service write-up, one of the meeting’s minutes began, “Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP are desperate to get in there” (emphasis in original).
Also in that section, Chilcot includes references to several pre-war documents identifying a British objective of using Iraqi oil to boost Britain’s own energy supplies. For example, a February 2002 Cabinet Office paper stated that the UK’s Iraq policy falls “within our objectives of preserving peace and stability in the Gulf and ensuring energy security”. A Foreign Office strategy paper in May 2003, which Chilcot didn’t include, was even more explicit: “The future shape of the Iraqi oil industry will affect oil markets, and the functioning of OPEC, in both of which we have a vital interest”.
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The British government is considering paying out research grants with #bitcoin — Quartz
▻http://qz.com/670708/the-british-government-is-considering-paying-out-research-grants-with-bitcoinMatthew Hancock, the minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general, said today the cabinet had begun exploring ways to use blockchains in the government, with a particular interest in how it could be used in the disbursal of government research grants.
“Monitoring and controlling the use of grants is incredibly complex. A blockchain, accessible to all the parties involved, might be a better way of solving that problem,” Hancock said in a speech at Digital Catapult, a government-funded think tank. Hancock cited bitcoin as a successful example of “distributed ledgers,” another phrase for blockchains, being used to track currency.(…) The government’s chief scientist has also studied the technology, publishing a report in January. A chapter of the report was devoted to uses of blockchains within government. “If applied within government it could reduce costs, increase transparency, improve citizens’ financial inclusion and promote innovation and economic growth,” the report said.
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Britain’s scientists must not be gagged
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/17/britains-scientists-must-not-be-gaggedThis startling, and highly controversial, state of affairs follows a Cabinet Office decision, revealed by the Observer in February, that researchers who receive government grants will be banned, as of 1 May, from using the results of their work to lobby for changes in laws or regulations.
The aim of the Cabinet Office edict was to stop NGOs from lobbying politicians and Whitehall departments using the government’s own funds. The effect, say senior scientists, campaigners and research groups, will be to muzzle scientists from speaking out on important issues. The government move is a straightforward assault on academic freedom, they argue.
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UK government pulls back from rule ‘gagging’ researchers
▻http://www.nature.com/news/uk-government-pulls-back-from-rule-gagging-researchers-1.19775The news has reassured scientists who had feared that the incoming ban on using public funds for political lobbying could have had a chilling effect on researchers. But it’s still not clear whether all researchers who receive government funds will be exempted from the contentious ban, which is due to be applied to grants awarded from this May.
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Gist of Tony Blair’s talks with George Bush over Iraq war to be published | UK news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/29/gist-tony-blair-talks-george-bush-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiryThe gist of conversations between Tony Blair and George Bush is likely to be published as part of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, after the government reached a deal in principle to make some secret information public.
The agreement between the inquiry and the Cabinet Office, which was announced on Thursday, comes after months of deadlock over what will be released, as politicians blamed each other for causing delays. Blair has repeatedly denied being responsible for the blockage, while Nick Clegg called for those likely to be criticised to accept public scrutiny and help move the process on.
The inquiry announced that agreement had been reached on the type of “gists and quotes” would be released from 25 notes and 130 records of conversations between Blair and Bush. No decision has been taken, however, on exactly which ones will be published. There is also now an agreement to release a small number of extracts from the most critical minutes of more than 200 cabinet-level discussions.
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Le Cabinet Office britannique lance un laboratoire de conception politique - #design Council
▻http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/82575542722Le Cabinet Office britannique a lancé un laboratoire de conception politique, (@policylabuk) dirigé par Andrea Siodmok (@AndreaSiodmok), annonce le Design Council, sur le modèle du MindLab danois, du Design Lab Finlandais, du LAB de Washington DC et du DesignGov australien.
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Le Cabinet Office britannique lance un laboratoire de conception #politique - #design Council
▻http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/uk-cabinet-office-launches-new-policy-design-labLe Cabinet Office britannique a lancé un laboratoire de conception politique, dirigé par Andrea Siodmok, sur le modèle du MindLab danois, du Design Lab Finlandais, du LAB de Washington et du DesignGov australien. ▻http://my.civilservice.gov.uk/policy et ▻https://twitter.com/policylabuk Tags : internetactu fing internetactu2net design #politiquespubliques politique #innovation #administration (...)
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Iraq war inquiry blocked in bid to make Bush-Blair ’kick ass’ memo public
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/10/iraq-war-tony-blair-george-bushContents of key conversations between Tony Blair and a bellicose George W Bush, who declares he is ready to “kick ass”, are thought to be among documents relating to the Iraq war that the government is withholding from publication.
It emerged this week that the Cabinet Office is resisting requests from the Iraq inquiry, the body set up to draw lessons from the conflict, for “more than 130 records of conversations” between Blair, his successor, Gordon Brown, and Bush to be made public. In a letter to David Cameron, published on the inquiry’s website, the committee’s chairman, Sir John Chilcot, disclosed that “25 notes from Mr Blair to President Bush” and “some 200 cabinet-level discussions” were also being withheld.
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Le gouvernement a un modèle pour les données : ce que j’ai appris de l’Estonie - #government Digital Service
▻http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/10/31/government-as-a-data-model-what-i-learned-in-estoniaPete Herlihy, du Cabinet numérique du Cabinet Office britannique, revient d’Estonie. Et il est emballé par le modèle de développement numérique de ce petit pays qui permet d’enregistrer une société en ligne en quelques minutes, d’avoir accès à tout service d’état ou municipal en ligne... Qui permet à chaque citoyen d’accéder à ses enregistrements éducatifs, médicaux, d’emploi... et de les corriger. Pour cela, l’Estonie repose sur un registre national (la base de donnée de la population) qui fournit un (...)
