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Remembering David Potter: Industrialist, physicist, philanthropist

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By Anthony Barnett Verified
| The openDemocracy Show
David Potter, who died on 28 June, was the UK’s pioneering engineer and entrepreneur of the computer age. In 1980, he founded Psion, a technology company that went on to create the world’s first hand-held organiser four years later. He then oversaw the creation of Symbian, the standard operating system for mobiles. Later, he served two terms as a non-executive director of the Bank of England, a period that included the financial crash of 2007, which confirmed his loathing of US financial influence.
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‘The Malfunctioning British State Cannot be Utilised to Bring About Its Own Solution’: Learning from the Mayors of the North

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By Anthony Barnett Verified
| bylinesupplement.com
Greater Manchester and Liverpool Mayors Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram holding a press conference outside Parliament on the proposed new rail line between Liverpool and Manchester in May 2025. Photo: Imageplotter/Alamy Head North by two Scousers, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, is the most original, interesting and important book by serving Labour politicians that I’ve read.
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'The Malfunctioning British State Cannot be Utilised to Bring About Its Own Solution': Learning from the Mayors of the North

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By Anthony Barnett Verified
| Byline Times Verified
Head North by two Scousers, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, is the most original, interesting and important book by serving Labour politicians that I’ve read. It was published in 2024 to a pitiful number of mainly patronising reviews in the London media – all of which missed the larger point of its call for a new constitution that enshrines a Basic Law, includes PR, and empowers Members of Parliament.
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