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Facebook, Google, The Hackers and My Disabled Account

Facebook, Google, The Hackers and My Disabled Account

Franz Kafka’s book The Trial follows the main character’s decline as he finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of an unjust legal system. Written in 1925 it was eventually recognised as a visionary premonition of totalitarianism. The book’s first lines “Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything…

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I Want To Hear Leonard Cohen In The Tower of Song

I Want To Hear Leonard Cohen In The Tower of Song

Someone once said to me that when the tram lines were taken up from our roads it was as if the tram lines that guided us in society also disappeared. There is a general consensus in the UK that we should try to be as free as possible in how we choose to live our lives without infringing on others’ right to be free, and I reckon most of us feel comfortable with that. But…

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