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“Built into an office behind the rates counter, the machine consists of a series of tin cupboards, a battery of teleprinters, and a formidable control panel desk that seems to have come from a space-rocket launching site. “The cupboards which are the crux of the whole machine, contain the  ‘memories’ – two of them ‘working memory’ which more or less controls the machine’s system of operation and a ‘bulk memory’ consisting of two mechanisms where the permanent data is stored on reels of ordinary cinema-type film.” In other words it was a touch complicated. We said the co...

Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | Apr 16, 2021 Co-owners of Sitka Construction Solutions, Derek James and Kris Karsunky, stand in front of the four 450-square foot houses that they’re constructing for the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe. The company does standard construction projects like heat pump installs and single family homes, but lately, they’ve been focusing more on the “mini home” concept. “We could do these for the rest of our career if we wanted to,” James said. “We saw what we were expecting with the demand, and now we just have to get a process out there.” (Photo by Erin Mc...

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Letters Writing in Weekly Worker, Ammar Kazmi asks me to “promptly explain” and “correct” what I wrote in my article, ‘Defend David Miller’, about the professor’s “alignment with pro-Shia groups” (Letters, March 18). I am very happy to respond - not to correct or retract, but to further emphasise the main points. The thrust of the article was to defend David Miller, his rights to free expression and broader academic freedom in the face of a concerted assault. The defence of free speech is essential, especially given the current attempts by the Johnson government, the Labour...

Tip of an iceberg Bribery, fraud, nepotism and graft are all endemic to the bourgeois order, writes Derek James The Cameron-Greensill affair has all the ingredients of a thoroughly contemporary scandal - the revolving door between politics and the very lucrative private sector, arcane financial dealings and shadowy lobbying, and a sense that privileged individuals can get away with playing the system at the expense of the rest of us. Just as predictable are the calls for greater transparency and new legislation to close the obvious loopholes, whilst the existing independent watchdog assures u...