The Pirate Bay has been blocked, by Virgin Media at least, by court order. 1984 came late but it’s arrived. Anybody affected by this would do well to research VPN tunnels or Usenet. You can also still access The Pirate Bay through some of its mirror sites. Here’s one that’s working currently. Share
The following article was contributed by Hannah W. Let me start this by making a confession. I hate cyclists. In my opinion they are lycra-clad menaces to other road users and pedestrians. I even have some dodgy statistics to back up my argument, for example: did you know that deaths amongst cyclists increased by 7% [...]
NB, I am not Davy. Not exactly sure what prompted it, but good golly is George Monbiot not mincing any words about his thoughts on Libertarianism over at the Guardian. Sadly, all we get is a horrible collection of misrepresentation, straw-man arguments, demagoguery, and outright misunderstanding of basic Libertarian principles. Let’s take this a bit [...]
Much talk in the mainstream media of late has concerned itself with the issue of tax evasion. Politicians promise to “crack down” on it and pundits and commentators smile and nod their heads. What’s more worrying, however, are the normal everyday people–many of them self described liberals–who froth at the mouth at big corporations or [...]
NB, I am not Davy Apparently NHS may shed 53,150 jobs, according to the anti-cuts organisation False Economy. Many mainstream media outlets have picked up on this report, presumably because it is a much scarier sounding, and therefore more exciting, figure than the Royal College of Nursing’s figure of 27,000. And it is scary, right? [...]
This is a list created by the Reddit user hblask (who gave me permission to repost) which archives a series of news articles, both statistical and anecdotal, which show the many failings of the NHS and other socialised medical systems around the world. He’s been keeping this list of articles archived in a Google Documents [...]
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