Tom Brandis

Reform UK's proposed detention centre law

Tue, 05 May 2026 18:13 GMT

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have released a proposed law (PDF) that they are calling the Mass Deportation (Detention) Bill.

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Git repo web crawler trouble

Fri, 27 March 2026 11:57 GMT

I don’t worry about web crawlers on this site - there are quite a few that scrape it but they do it in a way that has very little impact on my server, maybe a couple of hundred requests a day max.

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Family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election

Sat, 28 February 2026 10:00 GMT

In yesterdays Gorton and Denton by-election, that Hannah Spencer of the Green Party won spectacularly, there was a claim by Democracy Volunteers that something called “family voting” was a major concern.

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Website archive using torrent

Thu, 19 February 2026 10:06 GMT

You (yes, you) can now download an archive of this site using torrent and if you make an archive too, I want to download it. Then maybe if this site goes down, my words will live on.

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Will Wikipedia be age restricted?

Sat, 31 January 2026 11:21 GMT

The proposed children’s social media ban requires all “regulated user-to-user services”, as defined in the Online Safety Act (2023) (the OSA), to “use highly- effective age assurance measures” to stop under 16s becoming users.

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