Paying for postcodes
2009-10-13
An appeal for the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File to be freely licensed to individuals and not-for-profit organizations.
BNP press office on mixed-race marriages
2009-06-02
An e-mail exchange I had a few years ago with “Dr. Phill Edwards” of the British National Party.
Snow preparedness
2009-02-08
The cost of and responsibility for snow preparedness: “it’s not just a matter we can leave to government, we all have things to do.”
Anatomy of a manufactured controversy
2008-11-03
How a harmless piece of advice to the staff of Bournemouth Borough Council was inflated by The Telegraph into a nationwide cultural crisis.
Database state
2008-10-16
A letter to David Howarth MP, asking him to work to defeat Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s proposal to create a government database of telephone calls and e-mails.