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Paranoid triangulation

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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 with their work not generally being worth much they like us all to be taxed and then given vouchers to give to “proper” news outlets. I figure this actually has a reasonable chance of getting implemented in some form, as it’s a neat way for … Continue reading →

Escaping the internet panopticon

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I’ll be returning to looking at the whole take back parliament thing later, but I’m still digging there so meantime I thought I’d pull together a few bits on something that I’m more familiar with. The Devils Kitchen has a link to an excellent article on the Panopticon Parliament which coming so close on the heals of Charlotte Gore’s article about the new front in the battle for liberty – prompted me to revisit an old bug bear of mine. Whilst we’re fighting tooth and nail (or at least letter and blog) to curtail the state intrusion into our lives, … Continue reading →

Missing the point

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As anyone who’s foolish enough to get me onto the topic will discover, I’m rather fond of the V/Guy Fawkes imagery . I therefore have been known to be a little fussy about how it’s used. As it is these days a powerful image against the Government and for civil liberties in general I get quite annoyed seeing it used in contexts which reduce it’s potency, of such symbolism. So I wasn’t that impressed when I came across this co-option of the V mask in support of the Lib Dems, I can only conclude that the person who made the … Continue reading →