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What the government should have said in response to David Miranda’s detention 21 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
There’s been a lot of comment on the web about the detention at Heathrow of David Miranda, the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald. Whether questioning him was necessary or not is still a ma...
Abusing Twitter 28 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
What do you do when someone successfully campaigns to have a woman featured on the next edition of the ten pound note? Well, if you’re a semi-moron with all the social skills of a decapitated earthwor...
Google Maps, where orange is the new blue (and also the new green, and red) 24 Jul 2013 | 01:09 am
Google Maps is going through a bit of a makeover at the moment. There will, sooner or later, be an entirely new version of the web-based maps (which you can see in preview if you switch to the beta op...
The secret location of Challis Island revealed. 22 Jul 2013 | 12:22 pm
Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have reported on a project known as Challis Island, an artificial pirate-themed island in the middle of a reclaimed lake in Cambridgeshire. None of the news...
More retail development in Evesham? 19 Jun 2013 | 12:41 am
Well, well, well. Hot on the heels of last week’s news about the possibility of Waitrose coming to Evesham, we now have another proposal in the air. Earlier this evening, I received an email from a PR...
Waitrose coming to Evesham? 14 Jun 2013 | 12:40 am
As has already been reported in the local press, Wychavon District Council are planning to buy the land currently occupied by Evesham fire station and redevelop it for a supermarket. Rumours about the...
Bridge works. At least, we hope so. 29 May 2013 | 09:31 pm
Reading my Facebook news feed at the moment, some people seem to be under the bizarre impression that the County Council and the Highways Agency do roadworks just for the sheer hell of it. OK, so some...
Licence to swill 6 May 2013 | 02:32 pm
Apropos the continuing furore over the late Jimmy Savile and the definitely not late Stuart Hall, the names of Andy Grey and Richard Keys sprang to mind. In case you’d forgotten (or the whole case ha...
Stop the lies from Stop43 1 May 2013 | 01:16 am
I blogged yesterday about the “orphan works” section of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, and explained why I think it’s generally a good thing. Of course, not everyone agrees, and people are ...
The copyright orphanage 30 Apr 2013 | 01:20 am
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act may not sound like the most exciting of laws, but it contains a section which will make some significant differences to the way copyright is applied to photos....
