A Magna Carta for the Web?
It’s time we started paying more attention to the longer-term agenda by governments to control the internet and reassert their somewhat weakened control over our lives using the 21st Century equivalents of the Trojan Horse: moral panics, and claims that they need these new powers to “tackle” welfare fraud...
Magna Carta: 798 years after Runneymede…
Ideas have consequences and the ideas about justice and liberty under law promulgated in Magna Carta have had some of the most profound consequences in mankind’s history. Originally intended by the English barons as a check upon the authority, privileges and prerogatives of King John, Magna Carta came to...
France & the Revolution for Equality…
For a country founded upon the demand for equality, liberty, and fraternity, that produced The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, that overthrew a regime based on special privilege… the reports of thousands marching in Paris against extending equality and equal rights for all are...