#politics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/24/atos...

A man who *was dying* of a degenerative condition was refused incapacity benefit. His last words: "...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770

Look just go and watch this, if you haven't seen it by now. And please bear in mind that this is, a...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/856558...

I am spittingly furious about this. Fucking PRS shitehawks, screwing the consumer once again. I hav...

http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411...

A story about how someone got fired from Google for being curious about his fellow employees. One m...

http://postdesk.com/debates/why-startup-britain-is...

I have some interesting in start-ups - I've worked at a couple, and I hope to work at more later in...

http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2011/02/27/tory-council-...

While Dangerous Dave Cameron talks about the Big Society, and tells us that we must all hel[ one ano...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/0...

If you live in the UK, stop what you're doing and read this, assuming you haven't already. This is...

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/philip-pul...

Philip Pullman, speaking in defence of libraries, neatly skewers the problem with Dangerous Dave's b...

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/1...

And here's the best of the responses I've seen to Sterling. Contains talk of the forthcoming OpenLe...

http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-sha...

Catching up on some of links I turned up over the break. This one pre-dates it by a few days, but I...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/1...

I know Stross is one of my regular linkees, and I'm sure a lot of you glide over him at this point,...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/...

This is idiotic rubbish on the part of Lieberman, and worse, Amazon. It isn't at all clear that Wik...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/...

And of course, as this makes clear, Lieberman and Amazon are very much missing the point. This is n...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/11/...

Americans! Have you ever wondered why everyone hates you? It's because you elect people like this,...

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/11/18/bbc-vows-act...

The BBC are squaring up to fight ISPs who indulge in traffic shaping/two-tier internet type behaviou...