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

This year will be make or break for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).  It is already years behind its original, ho...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently ...

In the wake of the continuing leaks about the NSA's activities, most commentators are understandably still trying to get to grips wi...

Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based...

The UK is famous for its tabloid newspapers and their particular brand of journalism. Here's a fine example from the Daily Express, ...

One of the most important messages in the history of free software – and computing – was posted 21 years ago, on 25 August 1991: On The ...

Last week, we had a story about the IFPI (the international equivalent of the RIAA) saying that the ACTA protests were trying to "s...

Digg's pretty established these days as a way of crowd-sourcing newsgathering. How about applying the same idea to politics ? Lots of s...

Here's a provocative thought : We’ve dared to suggest that the GPL as it stands today, or for that manner any other common open source l...

Tom Watson is that rare thing: a net-savvy MP. So his decision to step down as minister means that our loss is all the greater. Maybe, tho...

Our dear Home Secretary decides to ignore what we proles think again: His warning follows an admission yesterday by Jacqui Smith that the t...

...that Sarkozy chap : Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday that he faxed on Friday evening to the President of the Commission (news piece in...

I've noted before that writing to MPs/MEPs seems to be remarkably effective in terms of generating a response. The naïve among us might ...

Given that the body of law forms a kind of source code for democracy, this is extremely good news : We already have a substantial free lega...

One of the central challenges of the modern age is how we can use all the shiny technology we have developed to make democracy work better -...

I've written before about the nascent European Digital Library : Consistent with the i2010 digital library initiative, this thematic n...

Here's a paradigmatic tale : The editors who were fired or resigned over the editorial-independence controversy at the Canadian Medical ...

Baidu.com , Google 's main rival in China, has launched its own version of Wikipedia (called Baidu Baike ). It turns out that Baidu...

As Lawrence Lessig famously noted, Code is Law . Which means that Code is Politics, too, since laws are drawn up by politicians. But the ...