The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Ad-blockers may be convenient but they're not ethical - or unethical for that matter

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**** It had to happen didn't it . I mean the extension of the long war against commercial communication - advertising to you and I - i...

Monday, 29 December 2014

In which Zoe Williams (inadvertently) makes the case for voluntarism...

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**** OK perhaps that wasn't uber-statist Zoe's intention but her (or maybe The Guardian sub's) opening statement in a piece ab...

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Some thoughts on toll bridges and copyright

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Driving home from City Hall this afternoon I listened to a sweet little interview with a woman who had bought a toll bridge. Grahame Pen...

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Monday, 14 June 2010

How the BBC licence fee amounts to subsidising middle class hobbies

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**** I return to this matter of the free rider . But this time, I am stretching the thinking a little to look at the extent to which certain...

Friday, 11 June 2010

Copyright, free riders and the New England turnpikes

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*** The problem really isn’t that copyright is a bad thing. As a right it’s not really much different from assorted easements, permissions a...

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