http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter This, for want of a better term, is my web log. en-gb copyright (c) Chris Lightfoot Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:20:45 GMT WWWitter http://backend.userland.com/rss 240 http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20070305-chris_lightfoot_1978-2007.html Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:20:44 GMT http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20070305-chris_lightfoot_1978-2007.html Chris Lightfoot 1978-2007 http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060712-information_wants_to_be_free_but_the_foreign_office_doesnt.html Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:59:37 GMT http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060712-information_wants_to_be_free_but_the_foreign_office_doesnt.html A brief note on Crown (and other) Copyright and the Freedom of Information Act. Ex-diplomat Craig Murray has been forced to remove from his website a set of official documents related to the events he writes about in his book Murder in Samarkand by government threats to sue. The documents were, apparently, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and (in the case of those which were about Craig himself) the Data Protection Act. http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060528-flogging_a_dead_safety_elephant.html Sun, 28 May 2006 12:02:40 GMT http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060528-flogging_a_dead_safety_elephant.html Charles Clarke, then Home Secretary, answering a question from Ian Paisley, in the House of Commons during the second reading of the Identity Cards Bill: http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060424-look_out_theres_a_safety_elephant_on_the_rampage.html Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:22:01 GMT http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060424-look_out_theres_a_safety_elephant_on_the_rampage.html So, I've been driven to write by an idiotic speech by that right herbert, our very own Safety Elephant, the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke. Earlier this evening he spoke at the LSE on the subject of ``The media and civil liberties''; his basic thesis being that New Labour hasn't eroded our civil liberties and anyway it's only doing it for our own safety. http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060419-lording_it_up.html Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:58:30 GMT http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20060419-lording_it_up.html So, last week while I was on holiday my colleagues Matthew and Francis implemented the splendid WriteToThem.com House of Lords edition, which offers an easy and convenient way for anyone to write to peers in the House of Lords. And as a way to publicise this in the (gak!) ``'blogosphere'' Francis has started one of those intensely irritating 'blog `memes', ``Birth Lords''.