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The War on Internet Terrorism 3 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
They call it “Trolliday”. Show your support for victims of intensive and targeted harassment by boycotting Twitter for a single day. The original plan was to use people power — lots of people working...
Lib Dems: Blowing it here. 7 May 2011 | 04:38 am
Poor Lib Dems. It all seemed so exciting and new when the Coalition was formed… then they increased Tuition Fees to £9,000. In a stroke they lost the nearest thing to a natural constituency they had –...
Magic and Kittens Socialism 5 Mar 2011 | 11:39 pm
Yesterday I made a comment that, to me, socialism was like “Everybody in the country getting dial up Internet and Internet Explorer 6 (a very bad browser) a year before the rest of the world’s even th...
The Revolution Will Be Commentated 23 Feb 2011 | 01:02 pm
This post has been abridged: Thought 1: Machiavelli is out of date – there’s a new truism when it comes to the successfully holding onto power: No longer is it better to be feared than loved. Now, I...
Mortality 20 Feb 2011 | 02:58 am
As a child, death meant Jesus coming down from Heaven and taking someone away with him on a cloud. It also meant lying flat on your back, arms spread into a T shape, eyes crossed and tongue lolling, a...
The Big Society Bank Experiment 15 Feb 2011 | 12:28 am
I freely admit I still have no idea what the Big Society is. I know that, from the Government’s point of view, it’s about trying to get people to volunteer to fix things they feel passionately about r...
On Dependency 6 Feb 2011 | 01:00 am
Despite the radical change in perceptions of the state of the country in the eyes of supporters and opponents of the current Government, very little has actually changed and, when all is said and done...
Save the Libraries… then what? 17 Jan 2011 | 07:08 am
Libraries. On the one hand they need to justify their existence beyond merely a source of free books for the unemployed, underemployed, pensioners, and children or people who simply think books don’t...
The New Terror 11 Jan 2011 | 07:35 am
It’s the easiest thing in the world to be well reasoned and rational when the reasoned, rational argument happens to fit your own prejudices. It’s quite another thing to use reason to support an argum...
You’re not the Lord of Me. 10 Jan 2011 | 12:36 am
John Prescott was the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister from the years 1997 to 2007. His name has been changed, by the Queen, to “Baron Prescott, of Kingston Upon Hull, in the County of East Yorkshire” but i...
