Year: 2026

  • Count Binface and electoral theatre

    Don’t be a costumed loon — It’s trivially easy to stand for Parliament in the UK. Any loon can do so. You need ten electors to nominate you and £500…

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  • I hate this

    But does it matter? — I don’t usually say that sort of thing here. I try to be more measured, less personal. I’m talking about the police face recognition vans…

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  • A dot-com cyber-futurist library

    Over 100 books from the dot-com era looking for an appreciative home Update: these books, plus some others, have now gone, as a donation, to the John Rylands Research Institute…

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