This page con­tains links to var­i­ous polit­i­cal things I have writ­ten. Mostly these are let­ters to my MP, pub­lished here on the basis that if I believe strongly in trans­parency, I might as well start at home.

I am polit­i­cally left-of-centre and am par­tic­u­larly pas­sion­ate about tech­no­log­i­cal issues, per­sonal rights and free­doms, and trans­par­ent gov­ern­ment. I have too lit­tle free time at the moment to pur­sue any actual involve­ment with pol­i­tics, so I’m mostly restricted to both­er­ing my MP about issues that par­tic­u­larly mat­ter to me.

Essays

• A Man­i­festo for Open Democracy

<23>Let­ters to Politi­cians and Pub­lic Bodies

• Please Demand Debate on the Dig­i­tal Econ­omy Bill (To Sir John But­ter­fill MP, 17 Mar 2010)
• Free­dom of the Press and the Guardian’s “Gag Order” (To Sir John But­ter­fill MP, 13 Oct 2009)
• DRM in Next-Gen BBC TV Sig­nals (To Ofcom, 16 Sep 2009)
• The Inter­cept Mod­erni­sa­tion Pro­gramme (To Sir John But­ter­fill MP, 22 Apr 2009)