Further Reading

Wikileaks … Whistleblower’s get their own wiki!

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse … This website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation.

Open Rights Group … The Open Rights Group exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age.

Fairtrade … Our vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential.

Humanism … The British Humanist Association is the national charity supporting and representing people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. Our vision is of a world without religious privilege or discrimination. We promote Humanism, campaign for an open society and a secular state, and work with others of different beliefs for the common good.

They Work for You … For all its faults and foibles, our democracy is a profound gift from previous generations. Yet most people don’t know the name of their MP, nor their constituency, let alone what their MP does or says in their name. We aim to help bridge this growing democratic disconnect, in the belief that there is little wrong with Parliament that a healthy mixture of transparency and public engagement won’t fix.

NO2ID … NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which “ID cards” are the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic. We aim to publicise the case against state identity management among the general public, in the media, and at every level in government. NO2ID’s members are from all sorts of backgrounds and hold all sorts of opinions on other questions. They almost certainly include people much like you.

SpyBlog … This United Kingdom based blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in ever cheaper and more widespread surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems.

Big Brother Watch … Big Brother Watch is a new campaign from the founders of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, fighting intrusions on privacy and protecting liberties. We will help you use the Freedom of Information Act to demand to see data held about yourself by the authorities. We hope Big Brother Watch will become the gadfly of the ruling class, a champion for civil liberties and personal freedom – and a force to help a future government roll back a decade of state interference in our lives.

Liberty … Liberty is also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties. Founded in 1934, we are a cross party, non-party membership organisation at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in England and Wales. We promote the values of individual human dignity, equal treatment and fairness as the foundations of a democratic society.

Amnesty International UK … Amnesty is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for human rights. Its work is based on careful research and on the standards agreed by the international community. Amnesty International UK is one of more than 50 nationally organised sections that make up the Amnesty International worldwide movement.

Palm Oil

• GreenPalm … By buying a product which bears the GreenPalm Sustainability logo, you can make a positive contribution to the certified sustainable production of palm oil. GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil.
• Friends of the Earth … Palm oil – rainforest in your shopping
• Greenpeace … The demand for palm oil.
• BBC Panorama … Palm oil products and the weekly shop.
• World Wildlife Fund … WWF, Panorama and palm oil.

Alan Bennett

The Habit of Art … Alan Bennett’s latest play at the National Theatre.
Alan Bennett biography. … Screenonline.
Regarding Alan Bennett … An appreciation of an author’s work.
The World Of Alan Bennett … Flickr group.
Alan Bennett … Wikipedia.
Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’ filming diary … Radio Times.
The History Boys … Wikipedia.
Living Icons … BBC.
Alan Bennett’s gift to the Bodleian library. … The Guardian.
Bennett biography. … BBC Leeds.

Peter Ackroyd

Prickly Peter … 2004 Interview from the Independent.
Tales of the city … 2003 interview with Peter Ackroyd from The Guardian.
Wired for Books … 1991 interview with Peter Ackroyd. Audio download. Recommended.
Bomb magazine … 1989 interview with Peter Ackroyd.

Stewart Lee

stewartlee.co.uk … Stew’s official website.
Stewart Lee … At MySpace. If that’s your sort of thing.
Stewart Lee Interview … washing machine blog! 2009 August 6th
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle … mini-sort-of-like-review at johnpeel.net
Stewart Lee … At Wikipedia
Fist of Fun … Excellent fan site with numerous resources. Recommended.
Stewart Lee interview … Dave. 2009
Stewart Lee interview … The Standup Blog. 2008
Stewart Lee interview … The Void. 2007
Stewart Lee Meets Ted Chippington … Feature from BBC2’s Culture Show on YouTube.
Stewart Lee: Noises Off … Lee takes issue with Ben Elton over BBC criticism. The Independent 2008/04/06.

Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter … BBC Four programme page.
Film Cars Limited … Production stills from ‘Off Kilter’ series.
Little Atoms … Download audio interviews with Meades. Recommended.
MeadesShrine … YouTube.
The 5-Minute Interview: Jonathan Meades … The Independent.
Meades’ articles … Clive James website.
Meades’ articles … More Intelligent Life magazine.
Changing times for Jonathan Meades … Evening Standard interview.
jonathanmeades.com … Still sans recent update.
Meades: Humanism advocate. … “The secularisation of society is vital. That means: quashing faith schools; instituting a uniform and predominantly Anglophone educational system; administering civil laws which do not acknowledge religions’ peculiarities; insisting on the primacy of free expression over the rights of institutionalised superstitions.”