US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret: ‘legally questionable’
Law
2026-05-04: Reform's latest unhinged and hopefully illegal policy: 'if you vote Green we'll put a massive immigrant prison near you'
2026-04-28: Elon Musk discovers that if you're a world-class villain it's hard to find a jury that doesn't already dislike you
2026-04-18
2026-04-07: Legislation punishing citizens of specific nationalities for actions they didn't take is absolutely unacceptable
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-29
2026-03-20
Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute Reverberates in European Capitals: ‘It puts a very stark light on technological dependency and the need for some form of sovereignty, autonomy and control in Europe’.
2026-03-19: 📚 Finished reading The Cut Throat Trial by S J Fleet.
2026-03-16
2026-02-22: Our American friends continue with their gratifying propensity to name their legislative bills with …
2026-02-16
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core: ‘Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases’
2026-01-05: The NYT and WaPo knew the US was going to abduct President Maduro in advance
2026-01-04: Weird date coincidence (I assume): January 3 1990: US captures Panamas’s ruler Noriega on …
2026-01-01: Reform's defence of your right to tweet 'controversial' opinions only extends to their ideological friends
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-10-23
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation: ‘… a constitution is no guarantee against autocracy…But it makes the would-be despot’s job much harder, and equips us with the tools to push back’
2025-09-11: 🎥 Watched The Mauritanian.
2025-09-06
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
2025-09-04: Finally, some good news: …calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, a tribunal …
2025-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough.
2025-08-25
2025-08-17: The UK government wants to use 'advanced AI' to catch pre-crime
2025-08-10
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London: Mostly for holding up a sign saying they support Palestine Action it seems.
2025-06-21
The Hidden Risks of Expanding Medical Assistance in Dying: ‘…ask whether it is appropriate for their government to offer easier access to euthanasia than to health care and support’