I became aware of a man called Paul Chambers today. As best I can tell, Paul is an entirely normal sort of chap. A bit like me, a bit like you. He has an active online presence, including regular updates to Twitter. In January of this year, after heavy snowfall Read more
You remember that awful moment during the Digital Economy Bill debacle, when after a few hours of rushed debate in the Commons in which only a handful of MPs showed any kind of understanding of the topics (hello, Tom Watson) the vote was finally called and suddenly around 200 MPs Read more
I wake today feeling decidedly naive. Last night I learnt a lot about the UK democratic process and how Parliament works. Courtesy of BBC Democracy Live (a superb resource) I was able to watch the third and final debate on the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Commons. It Read more
Back in October I wrote an article about what I called ‘the idiot superclass’. It was a rant about what I saw as the vast mass of humanity that serves no useful purpose, following a couple of homophobic incidents in the UK that week but not about them specifically. In Read more
Here’s a quick update on the Digital Economy Bill, for anybody that’s interested. I have not received a response or even an acknowledgement to my second letter to Charles Clarke. Presumably the stock response wouldn’t work a second time, so the email was conveniently ‘put aside’. A shame. If Clarke Read more
The hour is late: this Thursday Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons, will detail the government’s plan for the Digital Economy Bill. She must be informed now that the bill requires proper debate. You can do this quickly and easily thanks to 38Degrees. Click here to add Read more
Following advice from Glyn Wintle, who pointed out that MPs can take no response as meaning satisfaction, I have written again to my MP Charles Clarke regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read my original letter here, and read Mr Clarke’s original reply here. Here is my new response: Read more
I wrote a letter to my MP, Charles Clarke, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read that letter here. I’m very pleased to say that I received a personalised response two days later, albeit from one of his researchers rather than from Mr Clarke himself – although this is Read more
I wrote to Charles Clarke MP today, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You might have heard me mention that a few times over the last few weeks. If you want to write to your MP, you can do so really easily by clicking here to go to the 38Degrees website. Read more
Further to the misguided, disastrous amendments to the Digital Economy Bill brought in earlier in the week, Thursday saw the situation – somehow – get even worse, with the attempt to outlaw ‘web lockers’ such as YounSendIt and Dropbox. Cory Doctorow explains it here. Web lockers enable people to upload Read more