Actually it was Evelyn Beatrice Hall who said that as a summarisation of Voltaire's beliefs.

The most startling fact I found out when reading this article is that I am now, at 29 years old, past it. I had heard of hardly any of the "top" artists in these lists never mind pirate their music.

All this supposition that Assange is being extradited to Sweden only for them to extradite him to USA his nothing short of a conspiracy theory. Why would anyone go such a convoluted route when they could simply extradite him from the UK using the fast track extradition process (that the USA has failed to honour incidentally). Involving Sweden in the process makes no sense what so ever, to extradite him from there requires both the UK and Sweden's permission and if the USA can get the UK to agree then why involve Sweden at all!

Over and over it has been said that Sweden wants to question him as they need to do this formally before charging him and that needs to take place in Sweden legally. So to drop by or phone is of no interest to Sweden and in any case, why should he be treated differently from every body else?

The key part you neglect to mention is that the Icelanders signed up to a statutory guarantee to guarantee up to a certain level of depositors funds. When Landsbanki collapsed taking IceSave with it, Iceland turned around and said that this guarantee only applied to Icelanders and not to other countries. Only then did the UK and the Netherlands start taking Landsbanki's assets.

With one hand, attack the nuclear computer systems of another country and with the other hand, demand extradition and decades of imprisonment for those who break into your systems to have a look around.

Except you cannot always extradite someone who you have had extradited to your country. The first country normally adds caveats to prevent that

Citation please. That song was written in it's modern form in 1881.

"Bear Wengse" should be "Björn Wengse". Poor journalism.

But not Scotland? Scotland has had the right to roam since time immemorial (much like Scandinavia's allemansrätten) whereas for England & Wales that's only really been allowed since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act of 2000 - and even then it's more restrictive than in Scotland.

Hate to be a grammar nazi but it's "shouldn't have" not "shouldn't of"

That doesn't make any sense! In the summer the UK is on UTC+1.

I love the way you bash the majority of states in the UN as not being "free, democratic societies" and use that as justification as to why they should not be involved in deciding the direction of the internet; denying to them the very same freedom and democracy that you so espouse. Pot. Kettle. Black.

Even though it's not their rig, I'm sure BP had some nefarious hand in it all. The oil leak, hurricanes, Lockerbie, 9-11 etc and now this!