8 April 2010
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One of the things that has been a repeated meme in various blog posts and tweets related to the Digital Economy Bill over the past couple of days has been the seemingly low numbers of MPs in the chamber of … Continue reading
7 April 2010
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Sad political (and Internet) nerd that I am, I watched most of the House of Commons debate on the Digital Economy Bill last night on BBC parliament rather than following Arsenal’s single-handed defeat by Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp. … Continue reading
27 February 2010
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I’ve been working on a new website recently called They Blog For You, an aggregator of blogs by MPs. Part of the work involved in setting it up has been to try to track down all the blogs by sitting MPS. … Continue reading
18 February 2010
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There was an article in yesterday’s Times by former cabinet minister James Purnell in which he sets out his vision for what he calls the “empowerment” of the British people. Quite apart from the fact that, as The Guardian points … Continue reading
28 January 2010
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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/geopostcode/ Many of you will probably remember the news story a while ago about the forced closure of ernestmarples.com, a website which provided a free postcode geolocation API that was, in turn, used by several other organisations running public service … Continue reading
28 November 2009
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There’s a theory which has been doing the political rounds for a while now, which is that the result of every British general election in the modern era (that is, since the advent of universal suffrage) has been the “right” … Continue reading
25 November 2009
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If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably never have been caught. Azad was convicted of a brutal stranger rape in Stafford in July 2005 after fragments of his skin were … Continue reading
23 November 2009
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Hot on the heels of an EU regulation that could, if actually implemented and enforced, destroy the advertising-supported economy of websites based in Europe, the British government comes up with a proposal of its own that is equally ludicrous. For … Continue reading
17 May 2009
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As can be seen on my photo gallery, I’ve recently added some albums of photos from the ECC in Brussels. Since several people have asked me what it was all about, I thought I might as well explain a bit.