Politics

Internet, Politics, Technology

Examining My Facebook Downloads

One very good consequence of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story is that a lot of people are discovering the surprisingly large amount...

Politics, Technology

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

I’ve been following the stories surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook for some months now, and in recent days, following...

Misc, Politics

Things Annoying Me Right Now

People labelling their Tweets “Breaking” before highlighting a story they believe is more important than others. People you...

Media, Politics

What Does “Digital” Mean?

The OED defines “digital” in five key ways, but the key definition that interests us here is as follows: Digital technology;...

Politics

Vote Tellers

If you’re British and live in the UK, you will hopefully be voting today. Indeed you may have already done so! My constituency is...

Internet, Politics, Technology

A Few Thoughts on the Ransomware Attacks

I’ve found a certain amount of the coverage surrounding the WannaCrypt ransomware attack really quite annoying, and the responses in...

Politics

EU Referendum: Immediate Post Mortem Thoughts

Cameron has to take a massive amount of blame for all of this. He probably didn’t think he was going to win the last General...

Politics, TV

John Oliver on Brexit

On Sunday night, HBO in the US aired a new episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The second half of the show was a long...

Politics

The EU Referendum

Clearly these are my personal views. Now read on… We’re now just under two weeks out from probably the most important vote...

Misc, Politics

Predicting Every Fixture at Euro 2016

In a frankly bizarre move, the Vote Leave campaign has offered a £50m prize to anyone who can predict the result of every fixture at the...