The Digital Economy Act: What Next?

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet on the Digital Economy Act front lately. This is due to the General Election and the need to get the facts with regard to what can and can’t be done, realistically, when there are so many issues that the new [...]

The Amnesty Ad that the FT Wouldn’t Run

You can read the dirty details in Amnesty’s press release: Amnesty ‘disappointed’ by FT’s decision to pull ad targeting Shell To understand just how bad things in the Niger delta are, Amnesty have produced this video.

Should the Lib Dems Enter a Tory Coalition?

As we wait to see if agreement can be reached between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat negotiating teams this morning, it seemed a good time to put down some thoughts on the Lib Dems’ position. In my view anything barring a name-only coalition, where the Lib Dems would be required to rubber-stamp anything put forward [...]

Politics, Celebrity and the Myth of the Secret Ballot

The election race is hotting up and, with the prospect of none of the parties gaining a majority, the parties are pulling out the celebrity supporters in a bid to grab last-minute votes. The Tories have Michael Caine (at least for their youth citizen plan), whilst Labour are punching above the belt with Sean Pertwee, [...]

Guest Post: Pixelh8 on Piracy’s potential effect on film

I can remember it clear as day, which is surprising as I was quite a wayward teenager at the time. I think it was a gang of about eight or nine of us huddled in to a suburban bedroom of a 16 year old boy, it was 1994 or there about and VCR’s had just [...]

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