Pragmatist

In this age of bold government budget cuts, it seems odd timing for "Equalities Minister" Lynne Featherstone to waste time and mon...

The Guardian reports on the latest response to the Australian government's efforts to control the internet .

The United Nations Safe Internet Committee (UNSIC) announced on Thursday that its web filters would no longer accept any Australian conten...

I should start my take on the " Digital Britain report " by making one thing clear: the fact that the government has issued the re...

Yep, the UK's bureaucratic alchemists are at it again, folks. They've taken a leaden, ill-conceived Consumer Credit Directive ( 2008...

In a recent speech , the EU Commissioner for Consumer Affairs, Meglena Kuneva, signaled 5 current priorities in relation to retail financial...

Oh, yes, it's aaaaall coming out now. All the great golden globs of public money lavished on the public sector over Gordon's twelve ...

"The entertainment industry scored a rare victory on Friday," says the FT , reporting the prison sentences and fines handed out in...

Another bail out, another Quango . This time New Labour wants the taxpayer to pay for the failure of the jaded business models of the music ...

Well, here we are in '09, the last of the Noughties: a fitting epithet for a decade of both reckless abandon and total collapse on the f...

They've really done it now . After ten years of unrestrained public sector expansion dressed-up as "Prudence" and leveraging t...

The UK government is planning to promote "attractively packaged content" on the internet, bowing to pressure from copyright owners...

The Home Office continues to build an all-seeing Nanny State at our expense, regardless of proportionality, competitive and low-cost commun...

Last Tuesday, I played a very small part in the closing panel discussion at the Society for Computers and Law 3rd Annual Policy Forum . Th...

Having committed rather too late to the principles of " better regulation ", it's only right that the European Commission shou...

I've given up my attempt to independently summarise the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 ("CPRs" in t...

Alarmed by the loose wheel nuts on this New Labour machine we're all riding in, I've been delving under the seats in a desperate att...

For those interested in keeping regulation to a bare minimum, like BERR (yeah, right), here's a little gem from the Office of the Leader...

HM Nanny is in fine fettle, commanding the nation's workers to get healthy and demanding that kids must wait until they're 18 befor...