The value bet, surely, is on the Reformed Conservatives, led by Nigel Farage to win the next election. If the Conservative Party is staring defeat in the face in late 2027, and it is clear that a mer… (View Post)

A couple of years ago, I picked up 13 year old son and some friends up from a party. Driving home, one girl (whose father was the US Consol General for a medium sized country) asked one of the others… (View Post)

Enforcement is intermittent. Commercial VPNs are mostly blocked on a per IP address basis. But it's fairly easy to connect to a VPS outside China and route traffic like that. (Tunneling over SSH… (View Post)

Indeed: I use Tailscale (based on Wireguard) all the time to monitor network devices. It's kind of insane that anyone might think that banning VPNs would do anything other than impose extremely … (View Post)

If a majority of Scottish voters go for the SNP in the next year's Holyrood elections, then I believe it would be wrong to prevent them from calling an independence referendum. Voters are entitl… (View Post)