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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...

The best meditation on blogging and bloggers I have read so far: In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine...

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...

Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commissi...

So, ye Japanese whale-eaters, eat this : Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be conside...

And the aim of this is precisely what? PricewaterhouseCoopers, in association with the European National Software and Associations: Europe (...

There are so many high-profile battles for the soul of computing going on that it is easy to overlook what is happening in some of the world...

As someone who has been following Microsoft for over 25 years, I remain staggered by the completeness of the Vista fiasco. Microsoft's c...

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

For some in the world of free software, libraries are things that you call, rather than visit. But the places where books are stored – espec...

... die by the (s)Word: Microsoft is working with Westminster technology chiefs after politicians and peers complained of being unable to o...

I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around, free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating exp...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is not only a great example of the open source methodology being applied outside software, it also started in the UK, wh...

Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...

But that's not too bad an outcome, because it seems to have taken most of the "three strikes" nonsense with it, as this full e...

When Sun announced at the beginning of this year that it was buying MySQL for the not inconsiderable sum of a billion dollars, the question ...

More incisive reporting from the BBC - not. This time, it concerns the move to extend performers' copyright from 50 to 70 years. The ...

There is something of a battle going on over the use of open source by local and national governments. Mostly, this centres on cost, togethe...

From a Wikileaks press release (not online as far as I can tell): Wikileaks spokesman Jay Lim stated "The UK is increasingly viewed as...

Some suspicious lack of transparency here : The Italian open source advocacy group Associazione per il Software Libero is protesting two mem...

There's an interesting consultation document on the role of copyright in the knowledge economy, put out by the European Commission: The ...

As someone who has been writing about the commons for many years, I am still amazed when new ones pop up. Here's another : The History ...

As I wrote below, the Telecoms Package is still with us, and there is still the threat that the crucial Amendment 138, which ensures that th...

Graham Steel has asked me what I think about this : BBC shows including EastEnders, Heroes and Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be available t...

Wow. I was convinced that the meeting of EU culture ministers yesterday was going to end badly; I was wrong - and I take my virtual hat of...