http://www.anonymong.org Blind in one ear and deaf in one eye Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:52:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:51:04 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2057 Friday see’s the end of the consultation period for our new bill of rights, or as Mr Cameron would have it our bill of rights, as he seems to be unaware of the existing documents which form our constitution (H/T]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:40:47 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1922 Over in Ireland they are apparently going to remove the legal protection afforded to things told in the confessional – for the sake of the children of course. At the moment it’s just in the case of someone confessing to “sexual abuse” where there is planned to be mandatory reporting required. Now I’d hope that [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/feed/ 1 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/03/a-flight-of-fancy/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/03/a-flight-of-fancy/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:46:24 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1858 Having had occasion recently to journey to the fair city of York I picked up a copy of New Scientist to read on the train back home, and came across a few articles that were rather interesting, so in the order in which I encountered them. The first concerned the ethical problems for anti-addiction drugs [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/03/a-flight-of-fancy/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/15/squaring-a-circle/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/15/squaring-a-circle/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:18:03 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1808 Something that is rather puzzling me at the moment is the seemingly normal unevenness in the application of “law” and the acceptability of protest. I know it’s not really that surprising, and isn’t news but a few things have crossed my vision in the last week which do seem to suggest that we (in a [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/15/squaring-a-circle/feed/ 2 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/14/notw-protests-and-bloggers/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/14/notw-protests-and-bloggers/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:09:48 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1802 Having dragged myself away from both work and the Tour for a little bit, I discover that there’s been a bit happening this last week. The big story as far as the papers were concerned seems to have been the NotW getting caught out doing the same sort of stuff the rest of them all [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/07/14/notw-protests-and-bloggers/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:47:15 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1749 Today is the 796th anniversary of the first great charter – the magna carta of 1215. Now some people think that it’s pretty much a busted flush these days, having been all but entirely repealed. Others seem to think that it’s irrelevant because we’re now a parliamentary democracy though the evidence suggests that despite them [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/feed/ 4 http://www.anonymong.org/2010/12/06/considering-wikileaks/ http://www.anonymong.org/2010/12/06/considering-wikileaks/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:36:34 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1320 Wikileaks has today released what is reportedly a fairly obvious list of facilities that the US considers to be of strategic importance. Which to me raises the question of what purpose the leak serves. Wikileaks presents itself as serving public interest, but what public interest is there in releasing the sort of list that anyone [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2010/12/06/considering-wikileaks/feed/ 2 http://www.anonymong.org/2010/10/21/chicken-little-or-salami-slicing/ http://www.anonymong.org/2010/10/21/chicken-little-or-salami-slicing/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:16:59 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1192 Something that I’ve been struggling with for a while is how to respond to the apparent constant salami slicing of our freedoms without sounding like chicken little, and I’m increasingly convinced that it cant be done. The problem is the creeping nature of the beast as so well expounded by Leg Iron “The Creeper is [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2010/10/21/chicken-little-or-salami-slicing/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2010/09/22/paranoid-triangulation/ http://www.anonymong.org/2010/09/22/paranoid-triangulation/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:49:36 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1138 A couple of unrelated articles caught my eye a bit today and led me to wonder just how unrelated they really where, or rather to ponder the impact of both of them coming to pass. Old Holborn highlighted the NUJ calling for state support for the vital democratic work of “proper” journalists. Rather than deal [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2010/09/22/paranoid-triangulation/feed/ 1 http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/ http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 18:01:10 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=987 Now as promised/threatened I’m afraid I’m returning to the matter of the “take back parliament” coalition. Firstly though a correction to my earlier post in that Mark Ross appears to have no connection to Ekklesia except they published a puff blog for Take Back Parliament, so sorry about that. Anyway onto looking at how they [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/feed/ 3