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The NHS Can Never Fail: There Is No Circumstance Where It Would Be Deemed Overwhelmed
20 March 2026
My conflicted thoughts on the UK's assisted dying bill
14 October 2024
Land of hope and tolerance
7 December 2023
I had Evusheld privately in the UK
2 November 2022
The UK's department for health and preprints
12 October 2022
The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world
10 October 2022
A glimmer of hope
1 August 2022
How YOU can help people still shielding
5 May 2022
The Current State of Evusheld (tixagevimab/cilgavimab) in the UK
28 April 2022
It's time we dropped Agamben
23 July 2021
Abandoning restrictions should not mean abandoning the vulnerable. We need policies to help those who remain at risk.
5 July 2021
Shielding is being eased again. Here's why this is so frightening.
18 March 2021
On healthcare economics and valuing lives
21 January 2021
The easing of shielding: the UK government's abrogation of responsibility
24 June 2020
Notes on vulnerability and COVID-19
28 May 2020
On ‘The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge’
20 April 2020
Who was actually responsible for the Toby Young OfS debacle?
6 February 2018
Cambridge University Press and Censorship
21 August 2017
A note on moral relativism and unthinkable liberalism
1 May 2017
Transcript of meeting between Elsevier and the Minister for Higher Education in the UK, Jo Johnson
4 May 2016
On neural networks and health data privacy
4 May 2016
It looks unlikely that UK universities are going to get out of the Freedom of Information Act
1 March 2016
Evolving notes on the political philosophy of David Willetts
23 February 2016
Internal review of FOI2015/25797
28 December 2015
My response to the NHS consultation
21 November 2015
'It's not about stifling academic freedom'
18 September 2015
Some thoughts on repealing the Human Rights Act
10 May 2015
"A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
20 January 2015
"Because we care about our planet..."
13 November 2014
The Ice Bucket challenge and the "waste of water" critique
27 August 2014
My personal response to the TTIP consultation
3 July 2014
The "tax his land" meme and its discontents (me)
5 May 2014
The Democracy We Do Not Want
28 August 2013
Ethics
7 July 2013
On Freedom of Speech
12 November 2012
The real problem with this mode of "curbing grade inflation"
23 August 2012
Our epistemic gap: actually, we need to re-think "unemployment", "underemployment" and "benefits" entirely
25 June 2012
For ATTN: David Cameron and Andrew Lansley
9 March 2012
Global and historical reasons why it is utterly innapropriate, even to joke, about killing trade unionists
2 December 2011
Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
2 December 2011
Complaint over the closure of the British Library to accomodate a visit from the queen
2 November 2011
The Werritty Feasel
12 October 2011
Words in memory of Troy Davis
22 September 2011
Troy Davis: Innocence and Execution; If This is a Man
8 September 2011
The Rhetoric of "Fighting" Illness and Disability
25 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden and Nuremberg Precedent
20 May 2011
On Daniel Domscheit-Berg's "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website"
22 February 2011
Prisoner Rights, Overcriminalisation and Reform in Democracy
18 February 2011
The Analytic of Patriotism: On Greg Mitchell's The Age of WikiLeaks
14 February 2011
David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
7 February 2011
The Big Society and Mythical Structure
3 February 2011
The 'net was never free from commercial interest; it's not a "new" threat to democratic speech
15 December 2010
Our Duty to Minorities
14 December 2010
Wikileaks is about capitalist paradigm shift, not single government overthrow
3 December 2010
Vince Cable's Orwell-esque doublethink
22 November 2010
DEMO 2010
9 November 2010
OUSU Freedom of Information requests
28 April 2010
Amendments to the British Computer Misuse Act
15 May 2007