Norman Kember, released from his Iraqi captors by the SAS and others, asks in his homecoming statement: was I foolhardy or rational? One of the easier questions, surely [More >>>]
The government’s bid for power to detain indefinitely people with untreatable severe personality disorders is the fourth manifestation of an inexhaustible appetite for detention without charge or trial, contrary to human rights obligations and centuries of tradition [More >>>>]
A new collection of examples of torture inflicted on our beautiful language, often by copy editors and sub-editors rather than the writers named (and shamed) [More >>>]
Description of a head of government (try to guess which one) with a strong belief in his own motives [More >>>]
Selling peerages for party donations isn’t new, but it stinks. It would smell less bad if we recognised that a peerage is a job, not an honour, or should be [More >>>]
Democracy Now, the American TV and radio program for civil liberties and war-and-peace issues, broadcast from London last week. I took part in a panel discussion on civil liberties in the UK (More >>>)
It’s hardly credible that in this enlightened age people with leftish views should think it immoral and unsocialist to arrange to pay no more in tax than legally necessary (More>>>)
The so-called Power Report contains many useful and stimulating proposals, along with one nonsense (that the voting age should be reduced to 16): but is it as revolutionary as its ambitious title suggests? (More >>>)
The story about George W. being warned before Katrina struck of the danger of the hurricane breaching the New Orleans levees turns out to be wrong: pity! [More >>>]
Britain is to be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest by a routine depicting a middle-aged man leering at writhing girls in gym-slips at school desks [More >>>]
