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A candid photo from the audience of a parliamentary committee meeting in Portcullis House, Westminster, showing a notebook with handwritten questions on digital strategy next to a water glass and a UK Parliament visitor lanyard.

Why Westminster Doesn’t Get Digital Sovereignty

There is a distinct kind of modern exhaustion that comes with trying to engage in civic life as someone who actually cares about where data lives, how infrastructure functions, and… 

A home lab desk setup showing three stacked Dell OptiPlex small form factor PCs, a Star Trek mug on a coaster, a keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors displaying terminal windows and code, with a bookshelf and window in the background.

The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab

I’ve never been terribly good at letting commercial cloud providers hold onto my life. Between wanting actual ownership of my data, a lingering distrust of corporate telemetry, and the sheer…