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Welcome to White Rose
Welcome to White Rose, a protest blog collective which looks at the issue of personal freedom and privacy and their erosion in the UK. Why another blog when Samizdata.net has been increasingly drawing...
View ArticleTechnical problem
We are having some problems with the White Rose comments system (as in “it is completely buggered up” sort of problem). This has been caused by the installation of some comment anti-spam defenses over...
View ArticleThe RFID Scanner
For those who have not yet noticed, there is a new blog set up by one of our illustrious contributors, Trevor Mendham – the RFID Scanner. I guess the name is self-explanatory. Please read the suberb...
View ArticleUp and down… and up again tomorrow
For those who have already visited White Rose earlier today and noticed that the article One for the heart, is missing. It was written for someone else and forwarded to me for information only. We hope...
View ArticleWhat is the Home Office up to now?
At first sight, this story is incomprehensible. Secret terror courts considered Special courts sitting in secret for pre-trial hearings in terror cases are being considered by the Home Office. Forget...
View ArticleInactive for now
Just to state the obvious, White Rose is inactive. This is due to a simple lack of time on the part of the main contributors. Work, life, other blogging… alas White Rose is currently a ‘blog too many’....
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There may be a delay in unsmiting…
As a key element in the samizdata-world interface has left London for a while, it is possible that there may be delays in unsmiting people whose comments get moderated by the samizdata SmiteBot. Why? I...
View ArticleBarking Parking Teslas
Long ago, Milton Friedman suggested the US might be better off without the Food and Drug Administration. People wrote to him saying the FDA should not be abolished but reformed so it would act...
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If only the Italian government had not so much else to do and can defer none...
To add to the burden, hospitals in Italy depend on medical personnel to try to trace the contacts that people who test positive have had with others. One doctor in Bologna, who asked not to be named,...
View ArticleThat should fix the comments…
Looks like the technical glitch (caused by a rubbish WordPress update) that had borked the comments & removed much functionality has been fixed for now by adding moar Russian hamsters.
View ArticleVaccines: some seek confidence, others a confidence trick
A dailysceptic article on the phenomenon of negative vaccine efficacy points out how routinely analysts still assume an efficacy minimum of zero, despite some negative vaccine efficacy examples having...
View ArticleGovernment minister guilty of ‘bullying’: expecting senior civil servants to...
Michael Gove stands accused of bullying his civil servants. According to The Sun, he “was said to have been visibly angry with a string of officials” over the abject state of the visa scheme for...
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