Category: Society
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The surveillance structure that underpins us all
Here’s another paragraph to add to the debate about privacy, surveillance, spying and the whole gamut of who does what, how and why with digital information that you think is yours and private but in reality is in the spies’…
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The local newspaper is dead, long live the local newspaper
The closure of printed newspapers around the UK counts new casualties in the battle to stem the tide of declining circulations and the ever-diminishing number of titles in print with news this past week that Trinity Mirror is shutting down…
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Magna Carta: The foundation of modern democracy
Some places you visit give you a palpable feeling of the event or events they mark or commemorate. You can literally breathe in and feel what it was like at the time it happened. That certainly was my experience on…
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Time to create engaged voters
The referendum on independence that the voters of Scotland participated in on September 18 was a close result. But the nays had it in the end by a ten percent margin. What struck me most about this referendum was the…