Archive for the 'politics' Category

On Copyright

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I’ve had an interesting morning so far, reading various articles and arguments in the field of copyright law. Well I thought it was interesting anyway. Its something I’ve long been interested in and something that is getting talked about more and more as its starting to affect things that some people care about. […]

PM Blair emails me

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

And 26 thousand others. I’m not normally one for signing petitions and the like but in the case of a biometric national ID card I had to. That is why I signed this online petition. I cannot begin to imagine why people think it is a good idea except that they are […]

More on Law

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

It appears that some law-makers do have a sense of humour:
http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=631
Brilliant.

Common sense revolts at the idea

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm
‘An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is “seriously misguided”, a House of Lords committee has said.’
Sometimes the House of Lords does something to make me really glad that they exist. Now I’m no expert on the workings of our UK political system, but it seems […]

War on Terror

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

I’m pretty certain I don’t know enough about this to form an opinion, but then that doesn’t stop everyone else on the Internet from having opinions about stuff does it?
I suppose you have to start from the basic premise that something needs to be done to protect our fair nation. If you […]


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