Google Glass: Privacy, Surveillance, Technology, Data
Google’s new product, Glass, will enable secret video recording. Now pretend you don’t know a single person who wears Google Glass… and take a walk outside. Anywhere you go in public – any store, any...
View ArticleNOM: Willing, deliberate liars
The National Organization for Marriage has been spreading a host of falsehoods about research into same-sex parenting. Every so I often I lob a tweet about this to Thomas Peters, NOM’s Communications...
View ArticleHow May Day became a workers’ holiday
May Day is celebrated around the world as a labour holiday. One of the few countries that doesn’t celebrate it is the one where it all began, the USA. The origins of May Day as a workers’ holiday go...
View Article“my rights end where yours begin”
That’s the whole conundrum of invoking God as the singular rationale for or against public policy—God says lots of different things to lots of different people, and all of them think that they’re...
View ArticleEurostar and the “Lille Loophole”
The Eurostar travells from Brussels-Midi to London St Pancras via the French station Lille Europe. The Eurostar has an unusual border-control arrangement, whereby passport control is done while...
View ArticleOh no, the Guards would never profile
In which An Garda Síochána deny that abducting a child from a Roma family merely because the kid was blond and the parents were brown was anything racist at all. Accessorising matters, you know! TRiG.
View ArticleThis is mental anguish?
Do you remember John Pike, the “pepper-spraying cop”? He’s been given $38k for mental anguish. The world is not fair. TRiG.
View ArticleAusterity and hope in South Shields
I’ve never been to South Shields. In fact, I’ve never been to the north of England at all. Well, Manchester and Hull for h2g2 meets, and Marsden in Yorkshire, where I have family history. But South...
View ArticleTim Minchin: The Fence
A song by Tim Minchin, dedicated to Timothy Garton Ash and Ben Goldacre. The Fence. TRiG.
View ArticleTamiflu, Bad Pharma, and the UK Public Accounts Committee
The conclusion that millions of people have been exposed to a treatment, at enormous cost to the public purse, despite the fact that independent researchers have been unable to verify it as being...
View Article
