The Digital Dilemma: part III From digital dystopia to digital rights ALEX KLAUSHOFER The first part of The Digital Dilemma identified the fork in the road we’ve arrived at in the West, one that presents a choice between being herded into a digital surveillance and control system or taking the road less-trodden and forging a better, more…
I Own the Law On the Leviathan and the Smartphone DAVID MCGROGAN Nomos, the king of all,of mortals and immortals alike,leads them on, making just the most violent deedwith sovereign hand. Pindar This is a short post about a big and much misunderstood subject: the ownership of law. The gist of the argument is easily…
ROGER WATSON One’s outrage is hard to contain. Netflix recently acquired the 2010 BBC re-make of Upstairs Downstairs. The re-make had a very short life of only two seasons due to the success of ITV with Downton Abbey which won the ratings war by a country mile. Even the fragrant Keeley Hawes and a troupe of established actors could not breathe enough life into this…
The “Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” Is A Complete Joke! CRAIG RUCKER Guest Post from Craig Rucker at CFact. What a grandiose mouthful of verbiage. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-UNFCCC) just wrapped up its latest session in Bonn, Germany. Abbreviated SB64,…
Dangerous criminals, including killers and rapists, will be allowed to walk free after only serving half of their time. ZOLTA GYORI The UK Labour government’s sweeping sentencing reforms will allow up to 6,000 inmates — including killers, rapists, and other sex offenders — to be released early, in a bid to ease severe prison overcrowding….
The climate scaremongers: Red Ed’s energy plan means 50 years of extra charges PAUL HOMEWOOD ED Miliband’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero has admitted that as much as £240billion will have to be spent on upgrading Britain’s electricity network in order to meet Net Zero targets. According to the Daily Telegraph: ‘Britain’s electricity network…
