Choose your enemy

+It seems our government has criticised the Russians for testing an anti-satellite weapon in space. One of the objections is that it will create more space debris. This is not an issue we should worry too much about when our rulers have failed to raise any concerns about Elon Musk’s current 400 Starlink satellites perambulating around the planet. Musk’s ambition is to have 12,000 of them in orbit ‘to bring us faster internet.’ Already astronomers are complaining that e.g. the recent passing of the Neowise comet was obscured by this litter. So c’mon Vlad, take aim at some of these interlopers and blast them out of the sky. Meanwhile let us ponder on the question of whether we can rely on Elon Musk more than we can Xi Jingping not to eavesdrop on our top secret communications. The internet and all its paraphernalia is getting out of hand, but those in charge if they are politicians are hopelessly behind the curve, and if they’re tech giants they’re buying the global economy (and maybe politicians too). It’s time the internet giants were fragmented into a million pieces.
 
+I read the *** report on *** Russian interventions in *** and reading between the lines found it little more than a plea for more legislation and dosh for the likes of GCHQ, MI5/6 and co. One wonders how paranoid Johnson must have been to delay its publication and his attempt to gift the Intelligence and Security Committee chair to Failing Grayling. The new chair Julian Lewis has sounded alarums that Dominic Cummings is trying to take control of the committee’s staff. Cummings will make lots more enemies this way. Lewis is a popular Tory backbencher. Sorry, ex-Tory backbencher.