Scary post of the day

Back at work today and to start the year off badly, this rather worrying post by Anna Raccoon about the birth of the ‘Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly’. Which it seems seeks to extend the EU across the Mediterranean in to Africa – the stated goals of political partnership and economic union seem oddly familiar. Anyway go read the article particularly the list of countries with whom we’ll soon be experiencing closer union with of course free movement of people. +2-1

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You’d have thought this would have made more of a stir

From Captain Ranty a list of rights that we’re about to lose. Go and read it here and then ask yourself the same question I find I’m asking myself. Just how did we let this happen? 0-1

Letter to Baroness Buscombe

you may or may not have heard by Baroness Buscombe the new chair of the Press Complaints Commission is pondering if it might not be a frightfully jolly idea for the PCC to also regulate blogs. Regulating blogs seeming to be an idea that governments just can’t let go of, despite the vast numbers of technical difficulties that would prevent it working for anyone with even half a technical clue. So despite this being an even sillier idea than holding ISPs liable for usenet posts made by people that aren’t their customers, it’s probably best to try and kill it … Continue reading