http://philtheone.com Right-leaning Blackpool blog covering South Shore, North Shore, Marton, Bispham, Cleveleys and the rest of the Fylde discussing politics, local life, tourism, national issues and the rest of the world. Lively discussions encouraged! Thu, 17 May 2012 08:20:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/ http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:13:59 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=2069 The heavily lobbied Digital Economy Bill, part of Gordon Brown’s Digital Britain strategy, has been powered through Parliament in the annual wash up. Perhaps it has been intentionally kept below the radar due to the immense opposition to it, although one could ask whether MPs even knew about it given the disgracefully low turnout. The [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/feed/ 39 http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/ http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:57:59 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1142 July-September “I love this town.” - Phil “The Power” Taylor The start of July saw Blackpool’s Opera House announced as the 2009 venue for the Royal Variety Performance. The show would be in December. We also saw Labour crushed in the European elections as the British National Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/feed/ 5 http://philtheone.com/2009/11/digital-economy-bill-guilty-until-proven-innocent/ http://philtheone.com/2009/11/digital-economy-bill-guilty-until-proven-innocent/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:50:02 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=837 I’ve spoken in the past about Gordon Brown’s so called Digital Britain, which to summarise briefly is a collection of legislative powers that will be implemented with the intention of reducing file sharing on the internet. Despite the Digital Britain report being authored by Lord Carter it is The Prince of Darkness, Lord Mandelson, that [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/11/digital-economy-bill-guilty-until-proven-innocent/feed/ 17 http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-part-2/ http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-part-2/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:21:09 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=456 It turns out there may have been something behind the recent and sudden shift in timescale for the Government’s proposed anti-file sharing measures. I may be miles behind on this given that the Sunday Times reported it a few weeks ago, but it appears on the face of it that Handy Mandy is behind it [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-part-2/feed/ 3 http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/ http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:29:22 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=414 Today it seems our illustrious Government have decided to bring forward proposed legislation to block file sharing protocols on the internet. Previously scheduled to come in in 2012, there is now some kind of urgency to get the laws in place. No, I’ve no idea why either, but I’m sure large amounts of cash were [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/feed/ 2 http://philtheone.com/2009/08/like-a-phoenix-from-the-flames/ http://philtheone.com/2009/08/like-a-phoenix-from-the-flames/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:46:56 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=334 Following the draconian censorship policies of Gordon Brown’s “Digital Britain”, and undoubtedly the success of the Swedish arm winning 7.4% of the votes to gain a Member of the European Parliament, it seems the UK Pirate Party is reborn. The last time I looked it was a website whose last update was years previous and [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/08/like-a-phoenix-from-the-flames/feed/ 6 http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-legislation/ http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-legislation/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:50:00 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=77 Lord Steve Carter and Ben Bradshaw have revealed their plans for “Digital Britain”. Application of a £6 per year phone line tax to fund the 2MBit broadband expansion into rich suburbs. ISPs are forced to hand over customer details on request to Ofcom which can be dished out to media conglomerates so they can monitor [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-legislation/feed/ 2 http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-revolution/ http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-revolution/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:21:00 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=76 So, Lord Carter today will be announcing a £3billion “Digital Britain” project for delivering broadband internet to every home in the UK as well as plans for “combatting” piracy. Their benchmark for bandwidth is 2Mbit which, yes, compared to dialup is fast but compared to all broadband connections in the UK at the moment is [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/06/vive-la-revolution/feed/ 0