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There's been a number of different of analogies for a new Bill being introduced to Parliament.
The BBC has produced a programme called Tearing up the Magna Carta? A number of bloggers has drawn a connection between this and the same laws that the Nazis introduced into Germany. And I would call the Bill a [...]

I would assign a significant proportion of the wider problems we have in this country, and in particular with politics, on one issue: the effective two-party system.
The Conservative and Labour parties have become so used to ping-ponging power between each other that politicians have become increasingly separated from what is going on outside in the [...]

The webcast for ICANN's meeting in New Zealand is finally up and running, and I have managed to join (at 11pm my time) with the end of the report reading and the public forum.
It's just like being there. In fact, if often seems so abstract when you're there in person that to watch it on [...]

Watching the various TV news channels this lunchtime, a radical idea for the format suddenly occurred to me – a simple change that would provide everyone with what they wanted.
It can be stated in two words: Death News.
It's that simple. A huge amount of the limited-time news programmes are taken up with what are, to [...]

Just got this: Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher has continued his letter-writing appeal over the dotcom contract ICANN has signed with VeriSign.
Last month, before ICANN Board approval of the controversial deal, he wrote to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez explaining his concern over the deal, and again to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Thomas O. Barnett. [...]

You can always think of a reason not to do something. Even when there isn't one.
My brother, sister and I always used to refer to my Dad's mum as “Nanny Boneleg”. We still do, even though she's been dead for 10 years and we are all in our thirties. Why? Because, when we were [...]

There's now so many untended pot-holes in the Internet's organisation that it's becoming difficult to navigate a path at all.
Over the years, ICANN has become incredibly nimble at avoiding putting its foot in a hole. But that's the problem with holes – they don't go away. In Wellington this week, and on a press conference [...]

Well, I've scoured all the online resources to find out what is going on at the Internet overseeing organisation's conference in Wellington and have found out – well, almost nothing.
Which rather handily points to the two major problems with the current ICANN system:
1. Transparency2. Internet community interaction
Transparency has become a hot topic because of the [...]

ICANN is meeting in Wellington this week and it looks to be an interesting one.
I'm not going to be there sadly, as I need to get on with my Sex.com book and attending would mean a week away from it. So I am going to follow things online, plus I have asked everyone on the [...]

I'm a bit late to this having spent the whole of yesterday working in a cocoon and the whole of day out and about, but Firoz Kassam has sold Oxford United FC for £2 million and he's sold it to Oxford man – who now lives in the US – Nick Merry .
And Merry has [...]