When slogans are not enough
I was 18 years old in 1979; people of a certain age will remember that year as being the start of the 'Thatcher Years' - the start of 11 years of Tory Government that was characterised by radical righ…
Tagged: civil-liberties
The obligatory General Election Post
Some years ago, a joke did the rounds about the first Albanian astronaut. The main thing you need to know is that at the time the joke was told Albania was a head-bangingly totalitarian Marxist state…
You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…
Facebook and the panic button....
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
ACTA - Why is the Government not informing MPs about this Agreement?
Have you heard of ACTA? How about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? No? Well, you're probably not alone. After all, here in the UK the Government won't even put documents regarding the Agre…