ofthewedge

rooting around for grubs in diverse soils

inequality

  • My presentation of ‘Privacy 2030: A vision for Europe’ at IAPP Data Protection Congress, Brussels, 21 November 2019 What would Giovanni have said if he was still with us? Well, first of all he would have noted that this event has coincided precisely with the future-fictional setting of Bladerunner. Now here we are, Brussels, 21 Read more

  • About Grenfell Tower

    On Wednesday probably around one hundred human lives (they still haven’t said how many) were sacrificed on the altar of English extreme inequality. The religious analogy is appropriate: the idea that there is nonatural or moral limit to the potential disparity between decadent wealth and grim poverty is tantamount to a tenet of a faith Read more

  • When Trump was sworn in as President yesterday it started to rain on Capitol Hill, raining on the modest throng of snowflakes and deplorables clustered on the first five segments of white tarpaulin along the National Mall, barely reaching the Smithsonian Information Centre, so far as I could tell. The rain was a sign of Read more