More disturbing videos have emerged showing pre-crime arrests ahead of the royal wedding.
Web 2.0 is a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production.
It has been said that AV would be a “beautiful British compromise”. But for its combination of madness, naked lies and bile, the campaign surrounding it has seemed distinctly American. The Yes side, on which I sit, has been slightly dull. The Noes have been fascinating, not only for their outrageo
If Facebook have acted at the request of a state body then the ‘Facebook Purge’ of activist accounts in the UK during the royal wedding is an issue with freedom of association and assembly at its very heart.
In an oddly self-fulfilling action, undercover police swoop to snatch a man singing "We all live in a fascist regime" in Soho Square on the day of the Royal Wedding. This is Britain in 2011.
The following is an anonymous personal account of the arrests of ten activists yesterday morning in London during the royal wedding for "committing a protest".
There appears to be a purge of political Facebook taking place
A Green laments the likely defeat of the AV referendum
If anyone was in any doubt that we have a highly politicized, out-of-control police force in the UK with scant regard for basic rights, the build up to the royal wedding provided a much-needed corrective.
There is a history to the middle classes working out how they think people should live through debate over royal alliances, separations and behaviour.
Don't write off Britain just because its component nations are embracing their identities.
At a London debate the argument for changing Britain's voting system was narrowly voted down and OurKingdom's Co-Editor was on the losing side. What he said was drawn from this long draft.
