“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” – Dr Emmett Brown, Back to the Future (1985) I hardly ever use phones.  Like many people, I do most of my communication either face to face,…

Update: Totally ahead of the curve on this one.  WhatsApp had an outage yesterday triggering a massive number of new users for Telegram Messenger.  They’re claiming to have 100 new users signing up every second….

This is the text of a presentation made to a meeting of the Alliance for Workers Liberty in London on 11 July 2013. Let’s start with what we probably agree on: 1. support for early,…

I wonder if that’s a word.  It should be. I’ve been de-Googling my life today. It’s hard to remember, but there was a time when Google was cool. Back in the 1990s, I remember reading…

I like to keep a record of the books I’ve read, and like millions of others, have found online communities to be a good way of doing this. In recent years, I’ve used two of…

I have been trying to do something fairly simple: I wanted to write a web page that could render well on a small screen (like a mobile phone) and which would display content from the…

A month ago, I published on my blog a short article entitled “Is this Netanyahu’s final month in office?” It contained several predictions about the Israeli elections — which is always a colossal mistake, as…

The Israeli elections are just six days away and the consensus in Israel and abroad is that Benjamin Netanyahu will once again be elected prime minister, heading up a coalition of right-wing and ultra-orthodox political…