February 2010

Just in case anyone's been reading Private Eye's charming little write-up of the LPO's situation, I'd like to point out the following errors in their report, if you can call it a

Why should we, as is de rigueur, believe the notion that all property is ultimately collective?

Greek mythology is making a welcome comeback in print and on the silver screen

Solicitors acting for retailers have been advised by their regulator not to bring "disproportionate" civil claims action against shoplifters.

A bomb attack outside a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune on Saturday has received remarkably little coverage here in the UK. It killed eight people and injured a further

There is a bone of contention about Chopin: his date of birth. Some say 22 February, others 1 March. This gives carte blanche to the bicentenary celebrations to spend an extended period

Sir Alan Ward, always the most charming and entertaining of appeal judges, is 72 today and seems to be getting demob happy. How else can one explain the glorious flights of rhetoric

Imagine an evil corporation; let us call it Megagreed plc. A worker with a fine and principled record speaks out about its directors associating with men who propagate a criminal ideology that

Denis MacShane, the Labour MP for Rotherham and staunch defender of free speech and human rights, has sent a letter to Amnesty International's UK Director, Kate Allen, regarding the organisation's decision to

The al-Qaeda theorist Anwar al-Awlaki has an expansive network of supporters in the United Kingdom. My colleague Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens has produced an authoritative report on the matter for the Centre for Social