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Mark Pack
Personal blog · markpack.org.ukpoliticshistory
Mark Pack's personal blog at markpack.org.uk covers politics and history. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mark Pack's blog on UK politics, including electoral reform and electronic voting. The linked post argues against electronic voting without a paper trail.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about politics, polling and history from a liberal perspective.
What Hacker News says?
The Lib Dem's main focus for at least the last 30 years has been electoral reform, preferably to a proportional system like STV which doesn't punish third-parties. If nothing else, a Lib Dem government managing to pass that would have a massive impact on the future of UK politics, and break the two party system that first-past-the-post inevitably causes (whether Whig/Tory, Liberal/Conservative, or recently Labour/Co…
Comment linking /files/2015/01/Liberal-Democrat-manifesto-2010.pdf
on “No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption”Submitted Optical Illusions from the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot just Dominic Cummings[0] but also Jacob Rees-Mogg[1]. I think it would have been democratically unconscionable to not have had "No Brexit" as an option on a second referendum, but that would have required a relatively complicated ranked voting system, and arguably it would have made more sense for the first referendum to have been set up that way instead. I suppose the alternative would have been for Remainers t…
Comment linking /150719/dominic-cummings-second-referendum/
on “UK to depart from GDPR”Submitted Bank of England: economic textbooks are wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLots of good posts out there about why electronic voting (w/out a paper trail) is a bad idea. Here's one: https://www.markpack.org.uk/160622/why-electronic-voting-is-...
Comment linking /160622/why-electronic-voting-is-still-a-bad-idea-tom-scott/
on “App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested”Submitted Have you been fooled by the social media hype? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile you've clearly mastered the tone of supercilious sarcasm that is the mainstay of British politics, I should point out to the audience that the Farage party is entirely the billionaire and foreign propaganda party, which is why they are successful. See eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c072prlxlddo Meanwhile, at least eight of their councilors elected last week have quit already due to comedy levels of mis…
Comment linking /176783/how-many-councillors-has-reform-uk-lost-since-the-may-2026-elections/
on “'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system”
