Liberal Democrat Election Promises

My mother reminded me of this yesterday; here are the Liberal Democrat’s pre-election promises, posted without comment… We will be strong in defence of freedom. The Government believes that the British state has become too authoritarian, and that over the past decade it has abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms and historic civil liberties. We […]

Marcus Povey

My mother reminded me of this yesterday; here are the Liberal Democrat’s pre-election promises, posted without comment… We will be strong in defence of freedom. The Government believes that the British state has become too authoritarian, and that over the past decade it has abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms and historic civil liberties. We […]

Education, Skills & Slavery… and why we’re probably screwed.

It is an often lamented truism that the UK no longer has manufacturing industry – people point at the closed steel plants of the north while recollecting a golden age of manufacturing where the UK built the wheels of industry around the world. The statement that we no longer make things isn’t entirely true of […]

Marcus Povey

It is an often lamented truism that the UK no longer has manufacturing industry – people point at the closed steel plants of the north while recollecting a golden age of manufacturing where the UK built the wheels of industry around the world. The statement that we no longer make things isn’t entirely true of […]

Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme returns from the grave

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Marcus Povey

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]