Category: politics

  • Pirate Party UK – 5 years old today

    Pirate Party UK – 5 years old today

    About four years ago I blogged about my first year as a member of the Pirate Party. Two years ago I blogged about the three year anniversary of the founding of the Pirate Party. As I seem to be in the habit of blogging odd-numbered anniversaries, it is that time again! Today the Pirate Party…

  • More taxpayers’ money wasted on spam email

    More taxpayers’ money wasted on spam email

    I’m often so frustrated at the ‘public’ who seem to go along with what the copyright monopoly wants, buying into their propaganda without questioning in. When I see people who ‘get it’ (it’s nicer still when they recognise Pirate Party UK’s work in this area) it gives me confidence in society – we will eventually…

  • Pirate Party UK – 3 years old today

    Pirate Party UK – 3 years old today

    Ever since I first heard of the Swedish Pirate Party, I thought to myself that the UK needed something like that, and that if it had something like that I would love to be a part of it. I didn’t however investigate sufficiently or I might have come across the several attempts to do just…

  • Pirate Party a single issue party?

    Pirate Party a single issue party?

    In this ‘blog post I would like to challenge the perspective that calls the Pirate Party a single issue party. Upon cursory inspection, that seems the case, but I hope that I can persuade readers that when you dig a little deeper there is more to the Pirate Party. I do not just mean the…

  • Ten for trust

    Following on from my last blog post, I am responding to connect.me’s call to blog about those I trust. One aspect I think that could do with some improvement in the way connect.me handles vouches, is the lack of evidence associated with each vouch. I hope I am trusted that when I vouch for someone…

  • ECHR vs Bill of Rights

    Will Tovey has written an interesting ‘blog post criticising Theresa May’s recent announcement of a new Bill of Rights that would replace the Human Rights Act (HRA) and withdraw the UK from the oversight provided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). I’d recommend reading it to anyone interested in going beyond the superficial…