25 years ago tonight Wendy Bevan-Mogg, Tom Fogg and I arrived at Dawn & Pete’s Peeping Toms Screening Night in Soho to unveil Netribution. This feels a time where some reflection may be helpful, so Tom and I have decided to make a 12 x monthly mini-edition of Netribution.

“He had the warmth of a fire at the end of the world” Ben Blaine It’s impossible to forget Les’s voice. The crisp yet calm confidence from a career in BBC Radio, but anchored in County Durham bedrock. He remains the only writer I’ve known who would pitch to me a story he wanted to focus on and these calls were my favourite. Not just because it made me, many years his junior, feel more important than I was, not least given I almost never had a budget, but because it was where his passion for what he did spilled through.

Netribution 1 grew in the fertile ashes of the dotcom crash – brimming with excitement about DV cameras and distributing films online. It turned 25 years old on New Years Eve. It wasn’t meant to be like this.