The Anonymous Citizen

Notes from a fleshy tube of chemicals in UK Inc.

Trump's Plans Could Plant the Seed for Sedition

Trump's Plans Could Plant the Seed for Sedition

Former President Trump has made his plans for a second term explicit as he seeks to tie up the Republican nomination. On his shopping list of vengeance fuelled policies is the removal and replacement...


Climbing for Perspective - Yet Another Lockdown Diary

Climbing for Perspective - Yet Another Lockdown Diary

Orwell really knew how to self-isolate. He sequestered himself on the Isle of Jura at the end of a road 35 miles from the only shop and the only pub. No electricity, no telephone. He was running away...


All the Years of Trying. An Ode to Patrik Fitzgerald

All the Years of Trying. An Ode to Patrik Fitzgerald

‘All the Years of Trying’ is a film about cult singer-songwriter punk poet and originator of folk punk, Patrik Fitzgerald; that has it's YouTube premiere - https://buff.ly/2S4J1M3on St Patrick's Day...


Can We Really Be Bothered To Take Back Our Privacy?

Can We Really Be Bothered To Take Back Our Privacy?

Speaking via Google Hangouts from Russia on June 5th 2014, during a talk with Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder J.P. Barlow at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City, Edward...


The Prevention of Journalism

The Prevention of Journalism

It is easy to feel that what appears to be a recent tide of encroachment on the freedom of the press is merely business as usual in the realm of nations subject to the ebb and flow of more or less repressive...


How to Destroy a Public Sector Organisation 101

How to Destroy a Public Sector Organisation 101

This module is for those seeking Corporatization of state assets, government agencies or municipal organizations into corporations. We will be using as our models, the BBC and the National Health Service....


Memento Mori Mandela

Memento Mori Mandela

There is no worse fate for a human being than to be cursed by sainthood. There are those who are not amongst the cadres who knew him throughout his life, who are attempting to thrust this upon Nelson...


The Orwellian Arithmetic of Surveillance  

The Orwellian Arithmetic of Surveillance  

The peculiar calculus of US Intelligence was laid bare to the world when NSA Director General Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently appeared before the Senate...


A Safety Pin Still Stuck in Our Hearts

A Safety Pin Still Stuck in Our Hearts

Great to see Patrik Fitzgerald on good form supporting Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats last ever gig at London's Roundhouse last night. The after-show party consisted of me trying to avoid getting crushed...


Voting is Dead

Voting is Dead

In the week that a strident UK comic Russell Brand declared the need for a political revolution that eschewed the conventional democratic means of voting, one thing at least has emerged from the twitterati...

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Dom Shaw is the author of 'Eric is Awake' and also a fleshy tube of chemicals working as a writer, scriptwriter and filmmaker in the UK. Was a boy, now a man. He lives.  

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