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I have two great regrets in my life.  One is eating a chicken sandwich in Varanasi, shortly before flying to Kathmandu.  This gave me the w...

Just as  A Partial India  was a re-working of  my   travel   notebook  for India, so  Walks with Lorenzetti  re-visits  a 1988 trip I made ...

In October and November 1986, I went to India for the first time.  It was an important experience,  which I tried to capture as it happened...

As people may have heard, there is a rather important vote on Brexit tomorrow.  It's going to be very close, so I would like to urge e...

As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...

Yesterday, I wrote a post asking people to write to their MEPs about the imminent vote in the European Parliament on the Copyright Directi...

Back in June, I wrote a long post about the proposed update to EU copyright law. As I explained, there are some bad ideas being proposed , ...

Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on whether to send its version of the Copyright Directive text to "trilogues" for fina...

A couple of weeks ago, I urged people to write to their MEPs about an important vote in the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parl...

Next week, a crucial vote will be held by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI). It concerns the proposed copyrigh...

There's an important series of Brexit votes taking place tomorrow.  The UK government will seek to overturn some sensible amendments ma...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica .  By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...

Bad things could happen in the European Parliament next Thursday, when an important committee of MEPs votes on proposals ...

The UK government seems to be pressing ahead with its idiotic plans to backdoor crypto. There is a (secret) consultation on the subject tha...

The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...

Next Wednesday, the European Parliament will have its final vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement , or CETA. If you were h...

There's an important vote by MEPs on the ENVI committee tomorrow about CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada . Background on w...

I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...