Tag: Glenda Jackson
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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When will we fight back?
A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…
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RC 238: The Witch Is Dead
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead! Munchkins Uprise! And Party! Recorded last week, somehow I think Thatcher’s funeral has just slipped off the agenda *sigh*. We’re still paying £8-10 Million for it though, and 60% or more people in the UK think that’s a waste of money…which in supposed austerity, it is. But strange how…
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This knife of Sheffield steel: British arms in Libya and Bahrain
(Video is not for the squeamish; then again this is real unlike the Tyler video…) Sorry to interrupt the music but unless you’re totally immersed in your XFactor/Gaga/CowellWorld you’d have heard of the successful peaceful protests in Egypt – and the more violent ones still going in Libya and Bahrain. The video above is gruelling;…
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Electioneering…
As you might have read here my letters and campaign (in a small way) against the Digital Economy Act talking to my local MP, Glenda Jackson (Lab). She sadly went ahead and voted for the Digital Economy aAct and is in a marginal of Hampstead & Kilburn (474 votes people – head and head with…
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The Pirate’s Revenge – Democracy in action
DEMOCRACY! This is the desperate cry going out on Twitter and blogs with the recent voting in of the Digital Economy Bill, as if democracy is something you buy down at Tescos, and is always instantaneous and as fast as our broadband connections. The moaning cry seems to suggest this is the end; and that…