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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...

As I and many others noted at the time, the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful abuses of the parliamentary process in re...

As Techdirt reported at the time, the UK's Digital Economy Bill was rammed through Parliament, without proper scrutiny or even much ...

I don't have much time for either of the main UK political parties (or many of the others, come to that), but I must give some kudos to ...

Much will be written about the events of the last few days concerning the leaked Labour emails , and the plans to create a scurrilous blog. ...

The "O" word has been much on the lips of the UK government recently, what with all the nice things it's been saying about op...

One of the great things about free software is that it transcends politics. Those on the left love it because it is a collaborative effort, ...

Evidence that open source and the more general concept of openness is becoming trendy: the politicians are bandying them around again. There...

Some fine outrage from our ex-man in Tashkent: I still do believe that we will come to recover from the terrible poison of the New Labour y...

Deep, if dark, essay on the deep malaise at the heart of British politics, and the rise of the database state: A threefold process unfolded...

Sally Murrer has been a local journalist for 33 years, and for the past 20 she has juggled her work with being a parent. A single mother, w...

... strikes again: A political row erupted last night after counter-terrorism police arrested the shadow Home Office minister, Damian Green...

And so it goes on: Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners - handheld devices that allow police to ...

There is a common misconception in Labour's love of super-duper databases: that more data is better. In fact, as any fule kno, what you...

...can Jacqui be far behind? All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing will be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new ...

One of Tony Blair's stupider statements was the following: "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist....

....but next time I will if this proposal isn’t dropped. Isn't it interesting how often we're hearing that refrain about ID cards.....

How does the Labour government manage to do it? Just as they let out a few sly leaks about their super-duper cure-everything Interception M...

More insane authoritarian urges from the present UK government: Shortly after the launch meeting of the UKCCIS, Culture and Media Secretary...

Here's an interesting emergent meme : An incoming Conservative government would decentralise health service computing and extend competi...