My good pal Sore Angelfish / Salty Partridge seems to be going through a rough patch right now. I won’t say more than that, but let’s all send him good vibes and hope everything turns out okay. I’ll leave it to him to share more when he’s ready - hopefully he’ll see this and let us know he’s alright.

Two years ago, I warned in City AM that the UK's Online Safety Bill risked undermining privacy and paving the way for government overreach into our digital lives. Today, that concern feels more urgent than ever. Last month, the EU Commission released its ProtectEU roadmap, outlining plans to provihome-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en

Update from the floods north of Austin. I stopped by the Round Mountain Baptist church this morning to help. They have dozens of firefighters performing Search and Recovery. They've asked untrained civilians to stay back from the search itself. While I was there, a young woman interrupted our conve