Occupy Leeds
Leeds’ face of the Global Occupy Movement.
Radish
Indie Radical Bookshop I co founded, with my wife Meg, in Leeds UK.
RadishBlog
Meg’s blog. Books, politics, Green ideas and more…
Tech Llama
Nigel Hardy’s tech blog . Nigel has been a good friend since the BBS days when he ran Arkham BBS and was a fellow activist against Cyberspace censorship.
Phone hacking warranted a major full public inquiry yet the undercover policing scandal, which involves a far larger invasion of lives over a longer period, has triggered a ragbag of piecemeal reports and inquiries. Most of them are the police investigating themselves. Each of them has a limited remit, preventing any overview of it as a system. Some of them […]
My last blog post was about corporate efforts to hide money and dodge tax. We all know about the Amazons and the Starbucks but there is another avoidance strategy which is about how goods - or more accurately, how the services related to goods are located around the world. Corporations brand, insure, distribute in house. By so doing they can then charge t […]
I'm sure I'm not the only one to be deterred from getting to grips with the garden - we're all behind! Hard to do much with frozen soil and soul-curling easterlies.However, this Sunday glimpsed a break in the cold! Lovely day so got on with some much needed tidying up. So much to do but keeping it focused and simple helps to control what wou […]
The end of year show signifies much more than ‘the end’. It signifies a point on our journey where we can look back and see how much we have grown, how our practice has developed and what we have to build on for the future. We have had to bridge communication gaps, act in a […]