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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...

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

It's is now clear that the incoming Trump government will be the most environment-hostile, and fossil fuel-friendly US administration i...

TTIP is dying : According to the research, "In the United States [today], opinion is split, with 15 percent in favour [of TTIP] and...

Last week, the UK government published a revised Investigatory Powers Bill, aka the Snooper's Charter.  Surprisingly, it took no notic...

Since the UK government published the draft version of its Communications Data Bill -- better known as the "snooper's charter&qu...

It seems that the UK government will be deciding what to do about the Snooper's Charter this week. It is already under huge pressur...

The concept of the commons derives from common land. This still lives on in England, in the form of commons - like Clapham Common - and as ...

It seems my MP was not at the Second Reading of the Digital Economy Bill. Here's what I've just fired off: Following my long conve...

Now is probably our last chance to influence our MPs on the Digital Economy Bill. Here's what I've sent : Although the main news to...

I must be a glutton for punishment: I've written yet another letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill (not that he bothered replyi...

As you may have noticed, there's some kind of political thingy happening in a few weeks' time. Too often, the geek vote is simply ig...

Nice observation : The other remarkable thing that happened at the conference took place during the three-strikes session. This was a parall...

Yesterday I wrote a quick analysis of the insane U-turn effected by the UK government over "three strikes and you're out". B...

They just don't get it, do they ? Parliament is planning to block the future release of expenses receipts after the humiliation endured ...

In the past, I've frequently asked you write a letter to your MP or MEPs about issues that relate to technical issues around open source...

As regular readers of these posts will have noticed, political issues are starting to impinge more and more on the world of free software an...

Great to see Heather Brooke getting at least *some* recognition for the huge service she has done transparency in this country by fighting f...

One of the central themes of this blog is that the openness that powers the continuing rise and success of open source can be applied to mos...

I just knew this was coming: Labour and the Tories left the door open today for a future move to exempt the full details of MPs expenses f...