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jockox3 posted a blog entry
Hari's Game: not even in the right ballpark
There's been a bit of a giggle going round the blogs over Johann Hari's three point plan for revitalizing our...
There's been a bit of a giggle going round the blogs over Johann Hari's three point plan for revitalizing our...
2 days ago
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: constitutional..., david hume, democratic..., elections
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: constitutional..., david hume, democratic..., electionsjockox3 posted a blog entry
If society is broken, it's only following its "leaders"
If, as the media and certain politicians seem to want us to believe, we have a "broken society" (whatever on earth...
If, as the media and certain politicians seem to want us to believe, we have a "broken society" (whatever on earth...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Data protection and the inexorable march of the snooping state
Apparently the Data Protection Act turned ten years old on Wednesday, according to El Reg. But you'd be forgiven for thinking...
Apparently the Data Protection Act turned ten years old on Wednesday, according to El Reg. But you'd be forgiven for thinking...
35 days ago
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Taking..., DNA database, government..., human rights
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Taking..., DNA database, government..., human rightsjockox3 posted a blog entry
Liberal Cornwall? The "Golden Triangle" tarnishes
I have no idea what problems Redruth faces with its "yoof". I have no problem with the police taking tough action to...
I have no idea what problems Redruth faces with its "yoof". I have no problem with the police taking tough action to...
38 days ago
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Taking..., alcohoodies, government..., human rights
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Taking..., alcohoodies, government..., human rightsjockox3 posted a blog entry
Criminally Ridiculous Bureaucracy!
I caught this on the BBC: BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Mum's police check for school runA mother has been told...
I caught this on the BBC: BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Mum's police check for school runA mother has been told...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Which region elected this Tory tosspot?
There has been a bit of a spat at the Euro-parl about whether some amendments to the "Telecoms Packet" (how...
There has been a bit of a spat at the Euro-parl about whether some amendments to the "Telecoms Packet" (how...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Protectionist Tory euro-snoopers
Thanks to Liberal conspiracy for highlighting protectionist amendments being sneaked into the Telecoms directive which MEPs...
Thanks to Liberal conspiracy for highlighting protectionist amendments being sneaked into the Telecoms directive which MEPs...
46 days ago
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: conservative, Europe, government..., intellectual...
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: conservative, Europe, government..., intellectual...jockox3 posted a blog entry
What a topsy turvey upside down world...Roy Jenkins he is not!
I nodded off quite early last night so it seems all the hoopla was only just beginning. I was evidently not so unconscious as...
I nodded off quite early last night so it seems all the hoopla was only just beginning. I was evidently not so unconscious as...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Surveillance State: Select Committee catches on ten years too late?
The Home Affairs Select Committee has apparently published a report suggesting that we may be wandering unaware into a...
The Home Affairs Select Committee has apparently published a report suggesting that we may be wandering unaware into a...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Spinning towards revolution?
This posting has been a very long time in the making. In fact, as is usual, I've been more than normally ponderous about...
This posting has been a very long time in the making. In fact, as is usual, I've been more than normally ponderous about...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Never say never again?
I feel I've been tagged in a strange sort of a meme for my thoughts on Oxford's recent local election results by...
I feel I've been tagged in a strange sort of a meme for my thoughts on Oxford's recent local election results by...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Why you should vote Jock Coats, Liberal Democrat, on May 1st
First, let me welcome all the many new visitors who have been reading my blog, thanks to the free publicity of my Labour...
First, let me welcome all the many new visitors who have been reading my blog, thanks to the free publicity of my Labour...
jockox3 posted a blog entry
Protection or Free Trade - Tories debate
There's this extraordinary debate going on (well actually the comments are closed) on ConservativeHome about a piece by a...
There's this extraordinary debate going on (well actually the comments are closed) on ConservativeHome about a piece by a...
149 days ago
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Churchill, conservative, economic..., globalization
Jock's blog | Jock's Place
| Topics: Churchill, conservative, economic..., globalization