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ECHR vs Bill of Rights

2011/02/17
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Will Tovey has written an interesting ‘blog post criticising Theresa May’s recent announcement of a new Bill of Rights that would replace the Human Rights Act (HRA) and withdraw the UK from the oversight provided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). I’d recommend reading it to anyone interested in going beyond the...

PHP DOMNode -> setAttribute() max-width confusion

2011/02/01
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While adding some custom code into Mahara, I came across what seems like a very odd PHP bug today, so odd that I put it down to user error, but just can’t seem to find what the user error is! Imagine the code below...

Pirates and Protecting Personal Privacy (a response)

2011/01/12
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As one of the Pirate Party members present for the excellent DEAPPG meeting (thank you!), I'll try and respond to some of your comments Eric. I will emphasise however that my comments do not necessarily represent anyone else in the Party nor the Party...

One year anniversary

2010/08/13
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As of posting this, I have been a paid up member of the Pirate Party UK for a year. It has been a rather busy year, and so much...

Policy discussion forums, open or closed?

2010/08/08
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When the PPUK’s policy discussion forums were closed I was aware of it, but as a paid-up member not really affected by it. At least that’s what I thought....

Dogfooding STV and the Board of Governors

2010/07/18
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The Pirate Party UK recently held elections for their Board of Governors, and with 12 seats up for grabs the fairest and most logical voting method to use was...