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The shame of Russia (courtesy of Facebook)
Share At the weekend, 40,000 to 50,000 took to the streets of Moskva—Moscow—to protest their government’s actions in the Ukraine, at the Peace and Freedom March. I understand that media called the...
View ArticleWhen it comes to mass surveillance, forget specificity
Share Be careful what you say on social media in Britain. English law permits mass surveillance of the big social media platforms, according to Charles Farr, the director-general of the Office for...
View ArticleBrand Kim Dotcom: what has changed?
Share Equal access: an audio recording of this blog post can be found here. It’s disturbing to see so many Kim Dotcom jokes post-General Election, with plenty of Kiwis happy to ridicule the bloke...
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A year of random thoughts: 2014 in review
Share For the last few years, I’ve looked back at the events of the year in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. (In fact, in 2009, I looked back at the decade.) Tumblr’s the place I look at these days for these...
View ArticleThe political caricatures of old have taken human form, but they’re still...
Share That’s another British General Election done and dusted. I haven’t followed one this closely since the 1997 campaign, where I was backing John Major. Shock, horror! Hang on, Jack. Haven’t the...
View ArticleThe fall and rise and fall of Kim Dotcom, and why, according to the US,...
Share In response to a friend’s Facebook post applauding the possibility that Kim Dotcom would get extradited, two days ago. It’s unedited, other than the inclusion of a link and a note, and I...
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