Archive – Anomaly UK

Complete list of all posts on this blog.

In general, I don’t edit old posts. Occasionally I might append a link to something relevant, or modify a link if the original one has gone stale. However, the blog was migrated from Blogger to WordPress around 2016 or 2017, and Blogger itself changed its rendering and formatting a couple of times, so I have manually corrected formatting errors on some old posts, and will continue to do so — generally if I want to link to an old post, and I find it has lines and paragraphs messed up, as many of them do, I will fix it then.

If you want to just get a flavour of this blog without reading it all, I have selected some highlights.

September 21, 2023 Boring Russell Brand Take
April 14, 2023 AI Doom Post
April 1, 2023 Housekeeping
February 15, 2023 On the Culture War
February 14, 2023 Better Without AI
July 10, 2022 Climatic Climax
July 9, 2022 Cars or Police?
June 10, 2022 Post-Liberalism
May 14, 2022 Normality
April 28, 2022 Chokepoints
March 11, 2022 Loyalists without a cause
February 24, 2022 Arsonist of the World
January 12, 2022 Media bifurcation
September 9, 2021 Being Right
August 21, 2021 In Your Fridge
July 28, 2021 What Will the Neighbours Think?
July 16, 2021 Crime and CCTV
July 15, 2021 Epiphenomena
July 9, 2021 Margin Call
July 9, 2021 Plague Update
May 28, 2021 Rationality and Republics in History
January 14, 2021 Entrepreneurship and Privilege
January 10, 2021 Who could have predicted this?
January 10, 2021 Defining the Facebook Era
January 9, 2021 The End of an Era
December 29, 2020 Death
December 29, 2020 The Plague Year Ends
November 3, 2020 Predictions
June 10, 2020 Gray Mirror and other updates
April 5, 2020 Politics and Ignorance
March 28, 2020 Fear and Equality
March 28, 2020 Twitter Diary of the Plague Year
March 12, 2020 COVID-19
February 1, 2020 31st January 2020
January 8, 2020 The failure of paedophile campaigners
December 15, 2019 Borisland 2044
December 5, 2019 Collectives
October 19, 2019 Encyclosphere
October 17, 2019 Aside on Software Bloat
October 15, 2019 Sunk Moral Costs
October 11, 2019 Double Standards Again
October 11, 2019 Decentralised Monopolies
May 27, 2019 Party Leadership Elections are Undemocratic
May 27, 2019 “To Do” list
May 27, 2019 Democracy advancing or retreating?
May 26, 2019 Secrecy is a central issue
April 26, 2019 Twitter account locked again
April 8, 2019 Decline of Conspiracy
January 12, 2019 Politics as Entertainment
November 10, 2018 Defining Bioleninism
November 8, 2018 Bioleninism, Tokenism and the Apex Fallacy
November 8, 2018 A sceptic comments on Bioleninism
November 3, 2018 Bitcoin as a Model Voting System
October 31, 2018 Anomaly UK Banned from Twitter
October 26, 2018 Contempt of Court
June 17, 2018 Bronze Age
June 16, 2018 Components of Growth
May 26, 2018 Hollywood, and Media as a Business
March 22, 2018 Climate Update
January 27, 2018 Human Goals
January 25, 2018 Assets, Parasites and Pets
January 24, 2018 Goal-Content Integrity
January 24, 2018 Constitutions and Law-Enforcement
January 9, 2018 Instrumental Convergence
August 17, 2017 In praise of Matthew Prince
August 1, 2017 "End-to-end encryption"
July 11, 2017 Revisiting the Program
June 17, 2017 Trophic Cascade
December 20, 2016 Democracy and Hacking
December 12, 2016 Actually Existing Capitalism
November 12, 2016 Modelling Failures
November 10, 2016 President Trump
October 1, 2016 Personal and Collective Power
September 13, 2016 Separation
September 11, 2016 Constitutions
September 7, 2016 Unchecked Power
September 3, 2016 Checked Power
August 13, 2016 Distinguishing Progressivism and the Left Coalition
August 8, 2016 Going for the Throat
August 6, 2016 More Prediction
March 6, 2016 A Prediction
February 6, 2016 Neoreaction and Twitter
February 1, 2016 Archiving
January 9, 2016 Outrage
December 29, 2015 Elite Cosmopolitanism
December 22, 2015 Soft Power
December 13, 2015 Birth of a Religion
June 7, 2015 Government and Management
May 26, 2015 Twister
February 15, 2015 Boring Fifty Shades of Grey Article
November 3, 2014 Neoliberalism
October 31, 2014 The Trichotomy Explained
June 2, 2014 Cathedrals and Cultural Dominance
March 23, 2014 Neocameralism and the Corporate-Governance Problem
March 23, 2014 What’s wrong with Paleoreaction?
March 12, 2014 Brief note on Bazaars
March 1, 2014 Hewitt, paedophilia and 1970s progressivism
December 14, 2013 A Scale-Free model of reactionary order
November 30, 2013 The Crime Rates thing
November 28, 2013 Failure Modes of Monarchy
November 10, 2013 Neoreaction and dynasties
October 31, 2013 What Happened in the Sixties?
October 16, 2013 King Barack
October 11, 2013 The Power to Tax…
October 10, 2013 Shutdown
October 3, 2013 Kingdom 2037 discussion
September 28, 2013 Thinking about Urbit
September 6, 2013 South Place Ethical Society
September 5, 2013 The Boden Professor of Sanskrit election, 1860
July 18, 2013 Bureaucracy and Power
July 17, 2013 Five Tensions
July 10, 2013 The Modern Structure
June 25, 2013 Conservation of Sovereignty
June 12, 2013 Unimportance of Policy
June 4, 2013 Lots of Clubs
May 30, 2013 Chances of success
May 29, 2013 Antidisestablishmentarianism
May 28, 2013 Emergent Morality
May 26, 2013 The War of Ideas
May 21, 2013 Secession
May 9, 2013 Policy and Bureaucracy
May 3, 2013 The Hollow State
April 28, 2013 Noah’s Castle
April 20, 2013 Collapse
April 20, 2013 Reactionary Unity
April 18, 2013 Lady Thatcher
April 7, 2013 Introduction to the Neoreaction
April 6, 2013 My moral approach
April 4, 2013 Binary Decisions
March 29, 2013 Aristocracy
March 28, 2013 Recap of the fall of Monarchism
March 19, 2013 Payday Lending and the Justice System
March 19, 2013 Levenson
March 13, 2013 Rationality and Prejudice
February 26, 2013 The End of Rail
February 19, 2013 Transnationalism
February 17, 2013 The Subjective
November 19, 2012 How Democracies End (maybe)
November 18, 2012 Another turnaround
November 18, 2012 Hitchens vs Paddick
November 17, 2012 Executions in North Korea
October 16, 2012 Integrating Theory and Practice
October 3, 2012 Jimmy Savile
September 28, 2012 Even more Meritocracy
September 20, 2012 Meritocracy and other bad ideas
September 15, 2012 Obama’s Way
September 13, 2012 Commentary on "Kingdom 2037"
September 13, 2012 Kingdom 2037
September 9, 2012 A Consumer of Theory
September 8, 2012 The Library
September 4, 2012 Laws not Men
September 4, 2012 Leaders, Followers, Outsiders
September 3, 2012 The Neoreactionary Programme
August 11, 2012 Louise Mensch
July 5, 2012 Lobotomised
June 8, 2012 Anomaly UK Realtime
June 7, 2012 The unthinkable
June 1, 2012 Thoughts on the Diamond Jubilee
May 7, 2012 Organisational Dynamics II
May 3, 2012 The Breivik Trial
April 20, 2012 Employment Policy
March 3, 2012 How to Kill Democracy
February 28, 2012 Putin
February 22, 2012 Blame the devil
February 22, 2012 Basic climate question
February 22, 2012 Peter Gleick
February 19, 2012 The predictable damage of the Euro
February 19, 2012 Repost: 5th August 2000
February 18, 2012 Social-network threat models
February 17, 2012 Heartlandgate
February 16, 2012 Neoreactionary
February 11, 2012 More on peer-to-peer blogging
February 11, 2012 Formalism Recap
February 8, 2012 SOPA
February 6, 2012 Law, Order and Prisons
February 5, 2012 Meritocracy versus Loyalty
February 4, 2012 Basic Power and Political Power
February 4, 2012 Honour Given and Taken
February 4, 2012 Formalism and Coalition
January 20, 2012 A Case for Ispettore Zen
January 9, 2012 Monarchism and Stability in the Middle East / North Africa
January 7, 2012 Diane Abbot
January 7, 2012 AI, Human Capital, Betterness
January 6, 2012 Relevance of AI
January 3, 2012 Speculations regarding limitations of Artificial Intelligence
December 31, 2011 Not Much
December 4, 2011 Detaching from politics
October 28, 2011 Queens and Kings
October 23, 2011 Nothing To Envy
October 23, 2011 Freemail
October 20, 2011 Who has the power to authorise perjury?
September 15, 2011 Slavery
August 20, 2011 Public Order
July 23, 2011 Weak leaders and bad leaders
July 21, 2011 Behind the Phone Hacking story
June 14, 2011 Froude on Democratic War
May 22, 2011 Left and Right
May 7, 2011 What a Shame
May 4, 2011 One Man One Vote
May 2, 2011 Goings-on in Kakul
May 1, 2011 Charlie Veitch
April 29, 2011 On Pageantry
April 17, 2011 Theology of the Arab Spring
April 14, 2011 Neofeudalism
April 11, 2011 Authority and Anarchy
April 10, 2011 Secular Reaction
April 3, 2011 Political Formula
April 3, 2011 Aretae's A-G
April 3, 2011 Practical Matters
April 2, 2011 The AV vote
April 2, 2011 The Fukushima Dissenter
April 1, 2011 On Over-Mighty Subjects
March 31, 2011 Robert Heinlein
March 27, 2011 Kinds of Monarchy
March 26, 2011 Justice and Fairness
March 26, 2011 Politics or Rules-Manipulation?
March 26, 2011 Edmund Burke on the Libya situation
March 20, 2011 A Clockwork Orange
March 19, 2011 Actually Existing Monarchy
March 19, 2011 75 dead in power station disaster
March 17, 2011 Repost
March 12, 2011 Anomaly UK
March 12, 2011 Why you should be a reactionary
March 12, 2011 Two points from Ezra Klein
March 4, 2011 99% chances
March 3, 2011 Whatever2AV
March 1, 2011 Car Insurance
February 28, 2011 Blogroll
February 28, 2011 Degenerate Formalism
February 27, 2011 Immigration Poll
February 27, 2011 On the Interests of Absolute Rulers
February 27, 2011 Nick Clegg Forgets to Pretend
February 17, 2011 Anonymous versus HBGary
February 4, 2011 Fascism and Democracy
February 4, 2011 Carl Schmitt
January 11, 2011 Belgium under Royal rule
January 1, 2011 John Gray on Rights
December 30, 2010 Climate Roundup
December 22, 2010 Friedman (D) on Rights
December 21, 2010 Cable and the Cables
December 21, 2010 "Egalitarian Monarchism"
December 19, 2010 Liu Xiaobo again
December 2, 2010 Assange's Theory
November 18, 2010 The Royal Engagement
November 12, 2010 Effects before causes in the lab?
November 7, 2010 Libertarian Politics
November 5, 2010 Tweakers and Pioneers
October 14, 2010 Non-violent revolution
October 13, 2010 The Nobel Peace Prize
August 21, 2010 A Strong Criticism of Monarchy
August 11, 2010 Devaluation of Significance
August 11, 2010 The story of real science
August 9, 2010 Originality and Science
August 8, 2010 What they want to hear
August 8, 2010 Lysenkoism
July 12, 2010 Thoughts on the World Cup
July 3, 2010 On Holiday
May 25, 2010 Right Conduct
May 25, 2010 Froude and Coke
May 22, 2010 Red Toryism
May 16, 2010 Conservatives and Climate
May 13, 2010 Fixed Term Parliament
May 10, 2010 Alternative Vote
May 8, 2010 The Election
May 5, 2010 Two-horse race
April 30, 2010 The Cancer of Bureaucracy
April 27, 2010 Anti-election poster
April 19, 2010 Recall petitions
April 18, 2010 The Liberal Democrats – an apology
April 16, 2010 Home Education registration dropped
April 15, 2010 Letters from Gordon, Dave and Nick
April 15, 2010 Election 2010
April 8, 2010 Private Morality and Professionalism
April 3, 2010 Shirky on Complexity
March 30, 2010 The Labour Theory of Value
March 30, 2010 Peter Kellner on Democracy
March 29, 2010 James Lovelock
March 28, 2010 Agatha Christie in the 21st Century
February 17, 2010 Advertising Agency
February 13, 2010 The Hockey Stick Illusion
February 8, 2010 Scientists' Fear
February 6, 2010 Views changing?
January 30, 2010 Pointless news
January 23, 2010 Flat Earth News
January 16, 2010 The Scientific Mind
January 16, 2010 Climate and Democracy
January 9, 2010 Proof of the Impossibility of Democracy
December 11, 2009 Major threat to your email
December 3, 2009 Climategate – sceptics come out
November 29, 2009 ClimateGate and CSI
November 28, 2009 ClimateGate
October 27, 2009 Clap your hands if you believe
October 4, 2009 The End
September 8, 2009 Dennis Wheatley
September 6, 2009 An Enhanced Model of Zombie Infestation
September 5, 2009 Political Passivism
September 3, 2009 Politics is a spectator sport
August 20, 2009 Zombie Attacks
August 9, 2009 The Rights of the Mob
August 4, 2009 Remember 42 days?
August 4, 2009 Celebrity and Politics
July 25, 2009 Voter Power
July 24, 2009 Two Kinds of Democracy
July 9, 2009 Hierarchy of security needs
July 7, 2009 What Ecclestone should have said
July 5, 2009 Bernie Ecclestone on Government
July 5, 2009 Secrets and non-secrets
July 5, 2009 Honduras
June 20, 2009 Anonymous Blogging
June 18, 2009 Fusion power
June 17, 2009 Iran Elections
June 13, 2009 Euro Elections
June 13, 2009 Thomas Paine
June 13, 2009 BNP Failure
June 10, 2009 Presidential Government
June 6, 2009 Demonstrations in Luton
June 5, 2009 Peston on Deregulation
June 5, 2009 The Chinese Civil War
May 30, 2009 The Hole in the Ceiling
May 30, 2009 Quote of the Day
May 30, 2009 The Rise of the BNP
May 30, 2009 The Welfare State We're In
May 29, 2009 Time to Tax Email
May 28, 2009 Dear Ms Rantzen
May 27, 2009 Ten-year-old mystery solved
May 25, 2009 Chris Woodhead
May 23, 2009 Nadine Dorries
May 23, 2009 MPs Expenses
May 10, 2009 Science in action
May 10, 2009 Margaret Moran
May 10, 2009 Crime in Exmouth
May 9, 2009 Brown and Me
May 9, 2009 Climate and Science
May 8, 2009 Retreat into history
April 23, 2009 Politicised Science
April 22, 2009 Dying Government
April 21, 2009 Cheques and Balances
April 21, 2009 Neocameralism
April 16, 2009 Quote of the Year
April 13, 2009 Gordon Brown: Genius
April 13, 2009 Right-wing Blogosphere?
April 12, 2009 A good cheat
April 10, 2009 CCTV Warning
April 9, 2009 Proved
April 9, 2009 Visual Security
April 8, 2009 New powers are different
March 28, 2009 Propertarianism
March 6, 2009 Goodbye scribefire
March 5, 2009 Broadsheet Rag on Iran
March 5, 2009 Government Default
January 22, 2009 Gaza
January 22, 2009 Private Fostering
January 22, 2009 Too Much Bling
January 21, 2009 Cross-border Crimes
January 20, 2009 Eric Raymond on Net Neutrality
January 18, 2009 Sainsbury's Pricing
January 17, 2009 Open Systems
January 16, 2009 Defence Information Infrastructure
January 15, 2009 Sovereign Debt
January 15, 2009 Statutory Instruments
January 12, 2009 EconTalk
January 12, 2009 AGW and Libertarians
January 11, 2009 State Education
January 11, 2009 Quick thought experiment
January 10, 2009 Parliament Bound by Contract?
January 10, 2009 Obama's Honeymoon
January 9, 2009 Email Security
January 9, 2009 Giles Bowkett
January 7, 2009 Apple Sells Unencrypted Music
January 7, 2009 Remote Searching
January 6, 2009 Bob Quick
January 6, 2009 Fernández-Armesto on farming, or, Neolithic Public-Choice theory
January 5, 2009 Using the Aspire One
January 5, 2009 Politics and Metapolitics
January 4, 2009 The real stupidity of Andy Burnham
January 4, 2009 Violence and Class
January 2, 2009 Science and Politics
January 2, 2009 More blogging in future?
January 2, 2009 Arnold Kling's Sheriff
December 20, 2008 Strictly Voting Systems
December 20, 2008 Tierney on Holdren
December 18, 2008 What matters about oil
December 5, 2008 Management costs again
November 19, 2008 Democracy Fails
November 15, 2008 Using encryption
November 13, 2008 Sam Mason
November 12, 2008 Bad Timing
November 9, 2008 Another voting conundrum
November 9, 2008 Contacting Me
November 8, 2008 Nappies and Religion
November 8, 2008 The Child Catchers
November 8, 2008 Seizure of Intellectual Property
November 8, 2008 Implications of a Knowledge Economy
November 4, 2008 Uncontroversial Measures
November 4, 2008 Voting – altruism and other motives
November 1, 2008 Value of politicians
November 1, 2008 Legislation – the details
November 1, 2008 Authoritarian MPs
November 1, 2008 More personal information
October 16, 2008 Personal Data
October 4, 2008 Housing Policy
October 2, 2008 Risk Aversion
September 27, 2008 Mortgages and scale
September 26, 2008 Washington Mutual
September 24, 2008 What was the problem?
September 22, 2008 Financial Complexity
August 24, 2008 What are police?
August 10, 2008 The Georgian Side
August 8, 2008 South Ossetia
August 6, 2008 Microgeneration
August 4, 2008 David Davis
August 3, 2008 Profession
August 3, 2008 Return
May 29, 2008 Myanmar
May 27, 2008 Child Abuse by Aid Workers
May 27, 2008 Lock-in
May 26, 2008 Buying large-scale insurance
May 26, 2008 MPs' Discipline
May 24, 2008 The FLDS
May 24, 2008 Polygamy
May 17, 2008 Mob Violence
May 17, 2008 On Rights
May 4, 2008 Anomaly UK
May 4, 2008 Entertainment and Policy
May 3, 2008 BBC drops UKIP from election results
April 27, 2008 Cognitive Surplus
April 27, 2008 Black Mass
April 27, 2008 Fascism: right or left?
April 26, 2008 The Essence of Government
April 25, 2008 How to get better?
April 25, 2008 20th Century Wars
April 24, 2008 The Lords
April 21, 2008 Quote of the Day
April 20, 2008 Sovereignty and Human Rights
April 20, 2008 How bad is Mugabe?
April 19, 2008 Invention of Tradition
April 19, 2008 Good reason to buy fakes
April 19, 2008 In defence of lying scumbags
April 19, 2008 Expanded blog reading
April 18, 2008 Libertarianism and Welfare
April 18, 2008 State Beneficiaries
April 18, 2008 Financial Regulation
April 14, 2008 How to treat spin?
April 13, 2008 Olympic Shame
April 13, 2008 Religiosity
April 13, 2008 A New Era in Politics
April 12, 2008 Kafeel Ahmed, Idiot
March 11, 2008 Loyalty Oaths
March 11, 2008 Telephone and Bank privacy
March 11, 2008 An unusually honest politician
March 11, 2008 Spitzer
March 10, 2008 Suspicious of Suspicions
March 8, 2008 Corruption
March 7, 2008 Who Rules?
March 6, 2008 Democratic Legitimacy
March 6, 2008 Folk Probability
March 4, 2008 Self-defence
January 9, 2008 Clarkson's Bank Account
December 22, 2007 Blair's Conversion
December 15, 2007 Climate Controversy
December 15, 2007 Democracy and Entertainment
December 15, 2007 Basra Update
December 13, 2007 News and Politics and Money
December 6, 2007 Torturing Robots
November 29, 2007 Health and Safety
November 29, 2007 Credit and Confidence
November 29, 2007 That Teddy Bear
November 28, 2007 Ingredients of Modernity
November 23, 2007 In Brief
November 22, 2007 The Data Leak
November 22, 2007 Control Order saves the day
October 27, 2007 Experiment in Basra
October 27, 2007 More explosives manuals
October 26, 2007 Using daylight
October 26, 2007 Free Abdul Patel
October 25, 2007 Virtual Worlds
October 21, 2007 Corporations and Governments
October 15, 2007 Richard Brunstom
October 15, 2007 Fixed Term Parliaments
October 7, 2007 Tax and Democracy
October 6, 2007 "The computer did it"
October 6, 2007 Crime: responsibility of victims
October 2, 2007 Phone Mast information
September 29, 2007 About this blog
September 29, 2007 Adams on Lomberg
September 29, 2007 Falkland Island Oil
September 17, 2007 Carl Hiassen, call your office
September 8, 2007 ICI: the investment fund
August 31, 2007 Back to Debian
July 15, 2007 Sacrifices
July 14, 2007 John Gray on progress
July 14, 2007 Internationalism
July 6, 2007 Hypothetical Questions
July 4, 2007 Views of Democracy
July 4, 2007 Why Five Years?
July 3, 2007 Wild Speculation
July 3, 2007 Climate Change poll
July 2, 2007 Suicide Arsonists
July 1, 2007 Perception of Value
June 30, 2007 Unqualified Reservations
June 29, 2007 Note for Terrorists
June 29, 2007 Human Rights
June 23, 2007 Joseph Corre
June 12, 2007 Murder in George Street
May 19, 2007 Air Power, Mithril and National Self-Confidence
May 17, 2007 What's a Website?
May 7, 2007 Quote of the Day
April 29, 2007 Insane Whackos
April 15, 2007 Radio Times
April 9, 2007 XML again
April 9, 2007 Mass Destruction
April 8, 2007 Unexpected Sense of Proportion
April 7, 2007 Deskilling and Overskilling
April 7, 2007 Freethinking
April 6, 2007 The 15 in Iran
April 6, 2007 Peace processes
April 6, 2007 Science and Climate
April 6, 2007 The curse of DIY
April 6, 2007 300
April 6, 2007 Rockbox
April 6, 2007 Europe's good government
March 16, 2007 Ripped off Again
March 15, 2007 Cadbury's
March 8, 2007 All Thatcher's fault
March 8, 2007 Intimacy II
March 8, 2007 Purchasing Intimacy
March 7, 2007 Property
March 7, 2007 When to leave Iraq
March 7, 2007 Clean energy subsidies
March 7, 2007 Films and tax
February 14, 2007 The Iran Thing
February 13, 2007 Trademark Perversion
February 13, 2007 Criminal Financing
February 12, 2007 The Mercantilist Subsidy
February 11, 2007 Is X a Y?
February 11, 2007 Sort-of random thought
February 6, 2007 Liberty is not best defended by sacrificing liberty
February 2, 2007 Religious Freedom
December 21, 2006 Security Speedbumps
November 29, 2006 HDTV and Freeview
November 23, 2006 Newcomb, Voting, and Moist Robots
November 22, 2006 Job Losses
November 22, 2006 Quote of the day
November 22, 2006 Le Figaro front page
November 20, 2006 Clear thinking on IP
November 17, 2006 Matthew Taylor
November 17, 2006 The Freedom Bill
November 17, 2006 My voting paradox has a name
September 28, 2006 Michael Wolff
September 24, 2006 Ubuntu Dapper on IBM 300PL
September 22, 2006 Owning Stuff
September 20, 2006 Meeting with the Representatives of Science
September 19, 2006 A sad story
September 18, 2006 The Church again.
September 16, 2006 Thin Models
September 16, 2006 Scientific Basis
September 15, 2006 In the beginning was the 8`(@H
September 15, 2006 [Insert "Short" pun here]
September 14, 2006 Sweeping up the fairy dust
September 14, 2006 Human rights
September 14, 2006 Online Gambling
September 13, 2006 How good is Wikipedia?
September 13, 2006 NERON
September 13, 2006 The Long War
September 12, 2006 A brief history of Nuclear War
September 12, 2006 Tivoisation
September 12, 2006 Mark Thomas on Broken Window Fallacy
September 11, 2006 War on Terror – long and short term goals
September 8, 2006 Blair and Me
September 8, 2006 Fairy Dust
September 8, 2006 Education
September 6, 2006 Those immigration estimates
August 30, 2006 Terrorism and Piracy
August 29, 2006 Legal downloading begins
August 23, 2006 Immigration and Liberty
August 20, 2006 Political Survival
August 8, 2006 First Principles
April 17, 2006 Another suggestion for building
April 6, 2006 The housing puzzle
March 31, 2006 Gaps in defences
March 30, 2006 Futurist: newish very good blog
March 28, 2006 On Badges
March 23, 2006 Lord Bingham's Judgement
March 23, 2006 Court Details
March 23, 2006 That Time Again
March 22, 2006 Denbigh wins in Lords
March 14, 2006 Police Direct
February 28, 2006 On new DVD formats
February 24, 2006 Incompetence and Privacy
February 24, 2006 IP and Public Consciousness
February 24, 2006 Regulatory Reform
February 23, 2006 ASI Highlights
February 7, 2006 Hamza Guilty
February 7, 2006 From Another Angle
February 5, 2006 Outrage and Censorship
February 4, 2006 Demarcation
February 3, 2006 Offensive Images
February 3, 2006 Jack Straw
February 3, 2006 On Being Offensive
February 2, 2006 Technical Integration
February 1, 2006 Quote of the Day
February 1, 2006 Three cheers for democracy
January 31, 2006 Why Not?
January 31, 2006 Expensive metaphors
January 30, 2006 Cost of DRM
January 30, 2006 On Being Evil
January 30, 2006 PJ on Google and China
January 29, 2006 Not boycotting Google
January 28, 2006 When politicians meet reality
January 28, 2006 The Evolution Survey
January 28, 2006 Cocaine
January 28, 2006 Capitalism without Capital
January 27, 2006 Ian Blair again
January 27, 2006 Real people
January 27, 2006 Language for deception
January 26, 2006 Lib Dem troubles
January 26, 2006 Race and the press
December 21, 2005 Two kinds of rules
December 11, 2005 Referrer logs
December 10, 2005 Crime: Why rape is different
December 9, 2005 The DRM problem again:
December 9, 2005 Crime: Rape
December 9, 2005 Crime: self-defence
December 5, 2005 Crime Week
December 3, 2005 ippr Paper on Intellectual Property
December 1, 2005 Useless Terrorists
November 29, 2005 Is the Internet a Place?
November 27, 2005 Elements and Attributes and CSS
November 26, 2005 Deborah Davis
November 16, 2005 Vanishing Countryside
November 10, 2005 Bill Thompson
November 10, 2005 Warning about dodgy sources of music
October 20, 2005 Linus Torvalds
October 20, 2005 More XML
October 16, 2005 XML Sucks
September 20, 2005 Large and Small Organisations
September 20, 2005 Death toll
September 9, 2005 Politeness
September 9, 2005 Quote of the day
September 9, 2005 For my to-do list
September 9, 2005 CPRE propaganda
September 9, 2005 Why Clarke must lose
September 9, 2005 Trade and Peace
September 8, 2005 Tree-stump shaped demand
September 8, 2005 No Electronic Voting
September 7, 2005 Emergency Preparedness
September 6, 2005 Why QMV?
September 6, 2005 Irreversibility
September 4, 2005 Katrina
August 22, 2005 Government Criminality
August 17, 2005 Neil Herron
August 17, 2005 Phones
August 16, 2005 Kidnapped
August 10, 2005 Microsoft Bugs
August 7, 2005 Perspective
August 4, 2005 The War on Housing
August 3, 2005 War on Squirrels
August 3, 2005 Filesharing cases
July 31, 2005 Humanitarian Intervention
July 31, 2005 Freedom and Photography
July 30, 2005 Crime and Terrorism
July 30, 2005 Kinds of Privacy
July 29, 2005 Policing Terrorism
July 26, 2005 John Kay on global warming
July 21, 2005 Deport this terrorist mastermind immediately
July 21, 2005 Looking Grim
July 21, 2005 Australia 178-8
July 19, 2005 Really Suicide
July 17, 2005 Death Throes
July 15, 2005 B Team
July 15, 2005 Terrorist Motivation
July 14, 2005 7th July Narrative
July 13, 2005 Welsh Womens' Work
July 13, 2005 More Activity in Luton?
July 12, 2005 Suicide Bombs
July 12, 2005 Controlled Explosion at Luton Station
July 12, 2005 Little Europe
July 11, 2005 Moral Agents
July 10, 2005 Let's not be morbid
July 8, 2005 Thoughts on British Muslims
July 8, 2005 The other reason we know we can take this
July 8, 2005 Early Reflections
July 7, 2005 7th July
May 6, 2005 Kennedy Lied!
May 6, 2005 Disappointing but significant
April 9, 2005 Security through Partisanship
April 7, 2005 Postal Voting
April 6, 2005 Make my vote count
April 2, 2005 What then?
March 31, 2005 The purpose of Schools
March 31, 2005 Womens' Work
March 31, 2005 What tops weekly bills?
March 30, 2005 Voting Fraud
March 30, 2005 It's 13:15
March 28, 2005 Two Years on
March 27, 2005 Complex fraud trials
March 27, 2005 Organisational Dynamics
March 26, 2005 Public Service Efficiency
March 23, 2005 Cyber-environment
March 22, 2005 Pharmaceutical future
March 22, 2005 The #1 neoconservative
March 22, 2005 IP Confusion
March 20, 2005 Punishment in Context
March 20, 2005 Protest Votes and Fringe Parties
March 20, 2005 TV Fun
March 18, 2005 Where's the Pork?
March 17, 2005 Bypassing grassroots
March 16, 2005 Computons
March 15, 2005 Quick point on Terrorism Act
March 14, 2005 Censorship as Expression
March 13, 2005 More Northern Ireland
March 11, 2005 Privacy or Freedom?
March 10, 2005 Legislative Productivity
March 8, 2005 Electoral Metaphysics
March 8, 2005 Why is the EU so corrupt?
March 7, 2005 Software Patents
March 6, 2005 The Northern Bank Robbery and the Peace Process
March 6, 2005 BritBlog round-up
March 4, 2005 More on Denbigh High School
March 4, 2005 School Uniforms and Thought Crimes
March 3, 2005 Openness
February 9, 2005 Crowded Island?
November 25, 2004 Human Nature
November 22, 2004 New Party II
November 22, 2004 A new party
November 22, 2004 Terrorism and Morale
November 21, 2004 A Case Study
November 20, 2004 Quick Links
November 19, 2004 Legitimacy, America and the World
November 18, 2004 Europe's Future
November 17, 2004 French Diplomacy
November 17, 2004 Jargon
November 15, 2004 Superpower Europe?
November 15, 2004 Pedantry
November 14, 2004 Is Europe becoming Islamicised?