The Dominic Cummings ‘scandal’ is one of the many lightning rods that will be used to redirect public anger over failures in the UK Government’s Covid-19 policies. Away from questioning the reasons for its inaction, tardy responses and the nature and purposes of our class based Capitalist society.

It looks like a cliche … it is a cliche. Basically, if an element on a web page has no truly useful function, then remove it. A carousel made with Javascript to show images? Get rid of it, it’s a waste of resources. You may think it looks cool, but what is its actual function other than to screw with people’s browsers and internet connexion? Huge background images or videos (especially with parallax type effects)?

There are millions of websites, so why start another? As mentioned elsewhere, this is partly, even mostly, an experiment or rather an exploration into low resources/high availability web publishing. Right now it’s a personal project but I hope that it may help to develop the debate both technically and politically about how we as socialists use the web. When the web was first growing there were masses of adverts which went along the lines “start your own web shop, open 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year worldwide.