See you in September!
When I will return to social media regulation, and also the making of the One Wales Government.
Watching the Democratic Convention in Chicago has brought back memories of the only Democratic Convention I ever attended, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were nominated in New York in 1992. I might write something about that on another occasion, and the whole context of that campagn, as it was captured in the great Hegedus and Pennebaker film The War Room, and the creation of the Clinton narrative, as I have taught it to students in the past.
But now it’s time to take a break. I will be back in September looking again at social media regulation and the difficulties for governments of managing policy learning over time in complex subjects, looking at what was learned about the inter-relationship of online harms with data monetization and monopoly in the period 2016-2020, and what we need to remember in addressing online regulation now. I suspect some of that will have to be learned all over again.
I will also finish off in the Once upon a time in Wales section on the remaining Cabinet Commttee meetings in the run-up to the 2007 Assembly election, before turning to the creation of the One-Wales government in that year. I am limited in what I can say about that, in that I became a Deputy Minister on (I think) 1 June, and would need to get permission for anything I write about my time in government. However, I am free to write about the party discussions prior my appointment as a minister, and I can draw on some research already published and previously cleared by the Welsh Government.
See you in September!