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But the proposed UK law would go beyond just FaceTime and iMessage to encompass all Apple products. Earlier in January, civil liberties groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty, Open Rights ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-uk-government-overreaching-again/

“BBC ‘misrepresented’ Covid risk to boost lockdown support, inquiry told”, the Telegraph reports. Note that the person doing the telling is not some random conspiracist but Sir Mark Woo...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/senior-epidemiologist-who-advises-the-government-says-bbc-misrepresented-covid-risk-to-boost-lockdown-support/

So, in spite of the Russia/Ukraine war, the growing conflict in the Middle East and the Chinese military threats to Taiwan, Ursula believes the most important issue facing the world is “disinfo...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-bond-villain-know-what-their-priorities-are/

As the Samizdata quote of the day has been taken already by an excellent candidate, I thought I would add this quote for your delectation and discussion: Public consultations have been sold as ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/the-potemkin-politics-of-the-uk/

The advantages over cash are, then, as clear as day. The pesky thing about cash is that it isn’t regulated. If you want to buy something in cash, you just hand it over to the person who is sel...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-digital-pound/

While the desire on the part of modern conservatives to divorce themselves from ‘neoliberalism’ is understandable enough, the simple truth is that there is a very good and obvious reason why ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-scorpion-state/

My new video!How bad is Antisemitism on campus?Will Leftist college students give me money to kill Jews?!!! pic.twitter.com/32hMNAOpMO — Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) December 21, 2023 Ami Ho...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/12/should-the-faces-of-the-students-at-san-francisco-state-university-who-were-happy-to-pay-to-kill-jews-be-blurred-out-or-not/

The Guardian‘s “social affairs correspondent”, Richard Booth, has written an article with the title “Five things that could help fix Britain’s private rented sector”. By “fix” he ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/11/five-things-that-could-help-fix-britains-private-rented-sector-you-wont-believe-5/

Ten years and ten days ago, the sadly missed Brian Micklethwait wrote this: “What if there is a real collective disaster?” Brian quoted this article by Paul Murphy which said that the respo...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/11/ten-years-ago-brian-mickelthwait-predicted-the-response-to-covid-19/

This article about “climate fatigue” by Francesco Grillo is one of the better arguments I have seen in the Guardian on the topic: “Climate fatigue isn’t a sign that Europeans are in denia...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/11/climate-fatigue/

But we cannot allow freedom of speech to become a casualty in the fight against anti-Semitism. We already have a plethora of restrictions on speech and protest, on everything from ‘hate speech�...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/10/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-we-defend-free-speech-for-all/

Ten months ago, a woman called Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. For days ago, a man whose name the police know but have not made public was no...

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/10/arrestable-and-non-arrestable-offences-during-religious-protests/