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This is brilliant : The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitabl...

I missed this during the summer lull, but that handy invention, Twitter (in the form of Oliver Morton ), has alerted me to this stunning tak...

..of utter, inane stupidity. Here's the grand summing-up of Brown's "new level": Terrorism threatens the rights that all...

That's Stella Rimington, former head of MI5. Her Guardian interview is so packed with good sense that I'll have to quote it at le...

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

Apparently : Ce matin, le Parlement européen a enterré la riposte graduée. En France, et dans les tous les pays membres de l’Union. Une « én...

One of the illusions that I have been labouring under is that here in Blighty we are largely untouched by the worst madnesses affecting comp...

"We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and arou...

Here's a heartening sign that the change of management at the top of the UK government (no names, no pack drill) is resulting in a littl...

Responsible citizen that I am, I signed an e-petition asking that nice Mr Blair to support ODF: Government documents must be available for ...

...With openness and much, much else. Spread the word .

Look out - the UK Government (or parts of it) are suffering an attack of common-sense : President George W Bush's concept of a "war...

Undeterred by the fact that Our Tone simply ignored our last petition to dump ID cards, I've signed up for another one , this time call...

I received an email from Tony Blair yesterday. Not that this was so special, since he also sent it to the other 28,000 people who had signe...

Even for the field of intellectual monopolies, which is strewn with examples of hypocrisy and bullying, this " 301 report " from t...

Iris is one of the messengers of the gods. Project Iris is a UK border biometric control system. Make that a failed UK border biometric c...

Antony Mayfield points to an interesting piece in the Guardian that worries about what it calls the Mmm, Yes, But culture that blogs can ...

According to heise online : the [German] Federal Ministry of the Interior declares the ability to search PCs without physical access to them...

This is what will happen if you're not carrying the ID card that nice Mr Blair wants us all to have....

Here's a slightly hopeful development. On the 10 Downing Street Web page (Tony Blair's official cyberhome), there's a new faci...