It says on Slashdot that
“Computer Shopper magazine has interviewed the UK Home Office about its relationship with the Internet Watch Foundation and discovered that the government doesn’t actually know what the IWF does, although it still plans to force UK ISPs to subscribe to the IWF’s blacklist… the IWF investigates suspected child porn websites and [...]
Archive for the ‘literature’ Category
The first rule of censorship
Posted in literature, tagged censorship on 18 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Pullman effect
Posted in literature, tagged Philip Pullman on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I note with dissatisfaction An Englishman’s report that the Philip Pullman piece to which we both linked earlier has now been removed from the online version of the Times.
An Englishman has kindly reposted the article for the benefit of those who missed it; a commenter provides its missing line.
The great science-fiction writer Harry Harrison was [...]
Wanton viciousness
Posted in literature, tagged Geoffrey Household on 3 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Naïve article in The Independent about how all home secretaries turn into monsters.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has presumably not heard of the well-known saying of the first Baron Acton:
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
She may not even have read what has been called ‘the best thriller ever [...]
1984 and all that
Posted in literature, tagged Eric Frank Russell on 3 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[actually the title of a fine modern sequel to 1066 And All That, by Paul Manning, ISBN 0708826121, illustrated by Patrick Wright, who has closely followed the style of the original in such memorable scenes as 'Hitler enlarging his living-room' and 'Bevan going naked into the conference chamber']
A number of responses to the LPUK 1984 [...]
