John Curtis

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Senior Researcher/Clerk at the House of Commons Library, researching Asia, Americas and the NI Protocol. War Studies alumnus. Follow for tepid takes on uncontroversial subjects.

49. RECOMMENDATION The Committee agrees with the position taken by successive UK Governments, that the two-state solution is the only possible positive outcome in this conflict. The UK, along with France —the co-signatory of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement-should now recognise the state of Palestine while there is still a state to recognise. An inalienable right should not be made conditional. The Government cannot continue to wait for the perfect time because experience shows that there will never be a perfect time, and in hindsight it is possible to see times when it should have occurred.
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6. Modernisation Committee Up to one hour from the start of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) motion (if that motion is agreed to) Lucy Powell That - (1)Mike Amesbury, Mr Alex Barros-Curtis, Markus Campbell-Savours, Wendy Chamberlain, Sir Christopher Chope, Sarah Coombes, Chris Elmore, Kirith Entwistle, Paulette Hamilton, Marie Goldman, Joy Morrissey, Chris Philp, Jo Platt and Lucy Powell shall be members of the Modernisation Committee; and (2)Lucy Powell shall be the Chair of the Committee.
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Think of our ad blockers again. Fifty per cent of web users are running ad blockers. Zero per cent of app users are running ad blockers, because adding a blocker to an app requires that you first remove its encryption, and that's a felony. (Jay Freeman, the American businessman and engineer, calls this "felony contempt of business-model".) So when someone in a boardroom says, "Let's make our ads 20 per cent more obnoxious and get a 2 per cent revenue increase," no one objects that this might prompt users to google, "How do I block ads?" After all, the answer is, you can't. Indeed, it's more likely that someone in that boardroom will say, "Let's make our ads 100 per cent more obnoxious and get a 10 per cent revenue increase." (This is why every company wants you to install an app instead of using its website.)
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