Yoink! These nine wishes for 2009 were meant to be done and dusted by 31 December. Nevertheless, I shall plough on… I’m a geek, to paraphrase Nick Clegg, by temperament, by instinct and by upbringing (the latter is all too true – my dad made me watch Alien when I was 8 FFS! He would… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #5: Comics I care about
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Nine wishes for 2009 #4: An end to “money for nothing”
I’ve spent days resisting blogging this wish because, quite frankly, I don’t think it will happen. But it certainly is a dearest wish, so it makes the cut. What I mean by “money for nothing” is the tendency of the late 20th and early 21st century to look at everything as if it were capital… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #4: An end to “money for nothing”
Nine wishes for 2009 #3: The State’s assault on Civil Liberties to begin to reverse
2008 was the year in which the gaff was well and truly blown on the government’s relentless drive to have every one of us “pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered.” Starting with the data leaks scandals at the end of 2007, we had a steady trickle of revelations about how the Regulation of… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #3: The State’s assault on Civil Liberties to begin to reverse