Buy Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and teach someone to read

This is a great idea. I don’t usually go in for charity and I think that Harry Potter is overrated, but I’m all for teaching people to read.
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Digg Digging Their Own Grave

After the HD-DVD key debacle you’d have thought that the people at Digg would have learned. In case you don’t know (where the hell have you been for the last few weeks?) Someone cracked the encryption on HD-DVD’s and published the key on their website, which was then dugg. The offending article was removed by [...]

John Reid, Someone Please Slap Him

Comment is free: Security is on the cards
How stupid does this man think we are? I mean, really, its insulting. Replaying the same old broken record trying to convince us that we need an ID card/database. All the arguments he uses in this article have been refuted over and over again. Maybe he thinks that [...]

A Very British Constitution

There’s a discussion going on over on Samizdata during which I’ve managed to goad people into drawing up a constitution for Britain. Here’s what we’ve got so far (with some edits that I’d like to see):
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Democracy: Under Construction.

I posted a few days ago about my ‘Vision of a Cyberstate‘, it was meant to spark a discussion, get people thinking, sow the seeds of ideas. There was no response, even though I explicitly invited it. I’m going to try again, This time I’m going to spread it across a series of articles/discussions, evolving [...]

Vision of a CyberState…

During the early spring, I get depressed. I hadn’t noticed a pattern before but my wife pointed it out to me the other day.
“Yeah,” she said, “its the same every year. For about a month you get irritable, restless, and are unable to focus your attention on any one thing for very long.” Theres also [...]

LTKA - Campaigning against the fingerprinting of UK schoolchildren.

LTKA - Campaigning against the fingerprinting of UK schoolchildren.
Across the board fingerprinting of adults is slated for the rollout of the national ID card and its associated datbase. No-one seems to care about that. Talk about letting schools fingerprint kids and the shit really hits the fan. Add this to the portable fingerprint scanners being [...]

RSA Drugs Commision, Petition the P.M.

My petition to Number 10 has been approved, follow this link to add your name to the list (UK residents only I’m afraid). My original post on the subject can be found here.
I’ll be adding a permanent link to the petition in the sidebar when I get a moment.
With any luck we’ll manage to persuade [...]

How many would it take today?

In the early years of the 5th century B.C., 300 brave souls stood against seemingly insurmoutable odds and brought an army reputed to number in the millions to a halt. The story of King Leonidas and his men is enough to give even the most cynical of people hope that freedom will prevail.
The 300 Spartans [...]

RSA Drugs Commission Report Released

Britain’s drugs laws driven by “moral panic” - Yahoo! News UK
What did I say?
And just after this, too.
When are our leaders going to wake up and realise that Daily Mail *spit* readers do not make good policy. By pandering to them they merely react to exaggerated dangers, non-existent risks, and sensationalist health scares.
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