
Cory Doctorow is considering leaving the UK because of governmental obsession with building a techno-panopticon society. He says:
"My grandparents escaped the Soviet Union to get away from state prying. Now it looks like I'll be leaving the UK for the same reason

I see Cory Doctorow has been reading a couple of my favorite books, John Holt's How Children Learn and

Cory Doctorow thinks the deal between the music industry and big UK ISPs is "just the latest paragraph in the record industry's long, self-pitying suicide note, and it's left me wishing they'd just pull the trigger already and stop beating their chests and telling us all how unfair it all is."

I sometimes mention in this blog how much I like books. Real paper books. Here I am at the Hay Literature festival posing with books: