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apocalypse now
Last night I dreamed an apocalypse. The dying weeks of a world gone mad, played out in spotlights…
EU Referendum
On the plus side, if ever there was a good day to have a paternalistic, patronising, patrioteer government…
On not pardoning Alan Turing
(Then) Prime Minister Gordon Brown, September 2009, being Right: So I am both pleased and proud that, thanks…
Sense
thejointstaff: Stand by what I said: Allowing homosexuals to serve openly is the right thing to do. Comes…
Open Sesame
The Open Rights group founding was interesting. At a talk just over a couple of years ago, organised…
Remember
In World War One Forty two million people were mobilised for the Allies There were twenty two million…
Politics, Vegetables and Paul and Storm
For some unknown reason, possibly just the random whims and zephers of ideas that float across my mind,…
New Politics
So, it has become obvious that in a small area of the remainder of the British Empire is…
Traces of politics
From the Capitol Steps, to the tune of the Beach Boys’ ‘Kokomo’: Guantanamo
The world today
Another day, another super-virus. Clever Scientists, in the name of Global Understanding – which has capital letters, so…