Now that I’ve hung up my hat at the Open Rights Group, I actually have time to read stuff for pleasure again. And it has been with great pleasure that I’ve read the two pieces listed below. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about – the quality of your prose sings through. In the case of these two pieces, though, that quality is matched by the urgency of the subject matter. Enjoy.
- Bill Thompson on Lord Stephen Carter’s interim Digital Britain report, and why peer review beats Peer dictatorship every time.
- Peter Wilby’s cover piece for this week’s New Statesman on the financialisation of British society.