Nor did they have funney heads
Today, the Ministry of Defence published classified documents relating to UFO sightings in the UK between 1986 and 1992. Those expecting high resolution photographs and detailed schematics of...
View ArticleThe UK needs the independent web
The bloggers were a major force for political change in the United States, and in the run up to the US election, the presidential candidates were listening to them. They helped shape public opinion, an...
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One Nation under CCTV
Photo of Banky artwork by Dr Case (cc). Flickr. Watching the watchers: Inside Westminster’s CCTV control centre
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I'm a photographer, not a terrorist.
Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or...
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The American Fear of Socialised Medicine
In 1960, the American Medical Association ran a campaign against the Democrats’ plans for free health care for the elderly. Calling it ‘Operation Coffee Cup’, they hired Ronald Reagan to record an LP...
View ArticleSecular Americans praise Bloomberg – 9/11 ceremony religion free
A reflection of the cultural diversity of the victims of 9/11 and a reminder that America is a secular country. Meanwhile, most of the remembrance services in the UK were entirely Christian affairs....
View ArticleJohann Hari’s Wikipedia editing history as David Rose
Not quite in the same league of journalistic malpractice as phone hacking is it?
View ArticleWe Are All Netizens Now
This post was originally published in June 2012 on another blog of mine. The Net means personal power in a world of little or no personal power (other than those on the top – who are called powerful...
View Article2013: The Year the BBC Looked Like a Bogus Signer
If the BBC was a neutral broadcaster working on behalf of the public that funds it … we might have expected it to broadcast the mass protest about hospital cuts and the sell-off of the NHS, brokered by...
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