Tag: austerity
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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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Royal Stanhope
Doug Stanhope on royalty. Yep, it IS embarrassing, and I wish we’d get rid of them. Or at least take back all our possession they have appropriated and they can pretend to be king and queens but on *their* dime. And find some sad deluded tourists to bow at them, they aren’t my superiors due…
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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…