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I have moved! 1 Mar 2012 | 11:30 pm
My new website is at www.jackofkent.com. Come and join me at the new site, and see my first post there for more news on the move.
Banksy on Advertising 1 Mar 2012 | 06:59 am
I saw this earlier today... People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you fe...
Thoughts on the present discontents. 14 Feb 2012 | 12:35 pm
Every so often the balance of power within a polity changes. In the United Kingdom the ultimate power supposedly lies with the Crown-in-Parliament. But in history, the strongest power has shifted: a...
The "TwitterJokeTrial" - guest post by Fiona Hanley 13 Feb 2012 | 05:59 am
This is a guest post by my Dublin-based friend, the art director and graphic designer Fiona Hanley. If it were not for the post 9/11 security climate then Paul Chambers may never have tweeted what he...
Lord Carey's "Terrifying Prospect" 12 Feb 2012 | 12:16 pm
The Guardian is carrying some quotes from Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, about the recent High Court ruling that councils do not have the power to formally impose prayers as part of offi...
No coroner's inquest for Dr David Kelly 12 Feb 2012 | 05:06 am
The High Court has recently rejected an attempt for there to be a coroner's inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003. I think this is unfortunate. Whilst one can have no serious doubt -...
Miss Piggy on Phone Hacking 5 Feb 2012 | 01:45 am
"Wow. I never thought of it working the other way 'round" is probably what Murdoch and others now think about scrutiny and pressure... COMMENTS MODERATION No purely anonymous comments will be publi...
A NightJack - and computer hacking - timeline 22 Jan 2012 | 10:38 pm
I set out below a chronology of the NightJack case and computer hacking by newspapers more widely. Please suggest further events and/or links, as it is intended that this post will be updated - signi...
Computer Hacking at The Times? 17 Jan 2012 | 06:57 am
Tucked away in the written evidence of News International's Interim Legal Director Simon Toms to the Leveson Inquiry was this fascinating revelation, which seems not to have been picked up by any of t...
Nineteen Eighty-four and 2012 1 Jan 2012 | 08:41 am
The stuff of politics is power. A political process is the means by which conflicting attempts to obtain power can be reconciled; it seems a truth of human nature (as well as of other animals) that t...
