I went into Town today to register as an election observer for the Open Rights Group. On the way home, my tube train shuddered to an early halt in Oxford Circus station. Some poor person had fallen (or jumped?) under the train.
We were all trapped in the carriage for …
View comments more ...Last year I wrote about the Lancet study that estimated 654,965 Iraqis had died as a result of Tony Blair and George Bush's invasion. At the time, the Prime Minister's office attempted to rubbish the estimate, saying that it was nowhere near accurate. Now the BBC has discovered that …
View comments more ...Tony Blair's "Number 10" web-site has opened an online petition engine. I wonder if our luddite Prime Minister has even been told about this? Anyway, here are the petitions that I've e-signed...
Scrap the proposed introduction of ID cards. Of course!
Encourage the reduction of household waste by requiring producers …
View comments more ...Anyway, when I first heard someone mention MySpace I checked it out and wondered if maybe I was re-directed to a defunct Tripod page.
And then the music started playing... oh sweet zombie jesus.
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Do you think that being watched over by armed guards is a price worth paying for your freedom? Is liberty worth keeping your mouth shut? Is it worth sacrificing fair trials to save our freedom?
What exactly does freedom mean to you people?
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Seen on Metafilter...
Okay, maybe this is the place I can find someone to explain to me the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and …
I've just finished listening to Cliff Richard arguing for an extension to the term of performance copyrights. Could he be any more selfish?
It's one of those laws where ordinary people are not permitted to bring private private prosecutions. The argument is that it stops people from "abusing" the law. This novel use of the word "abusing" actually means "practically demonstrating the fuckwittitude of".
Section 15 of the Bill requires the consent of …
View comments more ...A cigarette, between knobbly old fingers. A tiny thread of red promise slowly curls in its tip.
"Ash?"
The young man stands beside the cafe table. He smells of the rain outside. The old man arches an eyebrow. It grotesquely contorts his lean, wizened face.
"Is your name Ash?" the …
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