Category Archives: activism

Petition against government snopping on email

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The Open Rights Group have a petition up against the “Intercept Modernisation Plan” which has been quietly revived and will be reportedly getting about two billion to work out how to spy on our email and web traffic. You and I might think they could do something more useful with that two billion but what do we know. Now I’m enough of a realist to not expect the petition to do much good but equally not signing it will certainly achieve nothing so may as well object. Go and sign it here +30

You’ll never walk alone

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So yesterday being the 5th of November, or if you prefer Traitors day, I toddled down to a certain central London public house along with two friends who’d come down from up north to join like minded people to go for a little walk as I’d done on previous years. So having seated ourselves with a small beer we proceeded to wait with the expectation of other people turning up, a mask casually lying in front of us to help with recognition. The weather outside being inclement we suspected that it might be a low turn out, but midday came … Continue reading →

Why we still need to go walking

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Having just recently plugged a rather nice afternoon stroll, today brings reminders as to why such strolling is still needed as a minimum. The new bosses really are the same as the old bosses (but then they probably always were going to be, especially if you subscribe to the view that they’re just following orders from Brussels/hidden powers). The pub element of the walk could certainly become trickier Via Big Brother watch a review of how the coalition and civil liberties, which doesn’t make happy reading. Nor in some ways does the dropping of charges against the love police as, … Continue reading →