I know that I’m just another liberal lefty academic but all the same I was very impressed with this piece by the historian Chalmers Johnson on the current path of the American Empire. Occasionally I watch some 1970’s American TV show or film and am reminded of how much we (meaning the British public) used […]
Month: May 2007
You will soon be able to download music online!
Yes, folks – hidden away in the depths of the BBC technology pages is the revelation that at last, after years of false starts and obfuscation, you will finally be able to legally download music online. Of course, many people falsely believe that they can already download music. They are sadly mistaken. The current set […]
Electronic Voting
I live in Wiltshire, in the Borough of Swindon, and so I was one of the people who got the chance to try the new electronic voting system at last Thursday’s Council elections. I didn’t vote beforehand, but opted to use the computer in the polling station – it was a horrifying experience. There were […]