Dissing the Disabled
Legislation to protect people from disability hate crime will never solve the whole problem; we need to believe in the spirit of the law
Trial and Terror
The use of federal courts for terrorist trials highlights the hypocrisy of Obama's counterterrorism policies
Caning the Banks
The coalition government's new levy on banks will be a levy on banks' customers
No Brits in Basra
British businesses are nowhere to be seen in Iraq, unlike the companies of those countries that opposed the war
Mama Grizzlies
The rise of conservative feminism in the US shows that gender doesn’t determine political affiliation The recent release of Sex and the City II has inspired a wave of insipid think-pieces musing on
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
Life, Synthia, But Not as we Know It
The latest work on synthetic cell creation by Craig Venter raises serious questions about bioethics
The Satirist and the Engineer
Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga, goes up against the humourless Mikhail Botvinnik
Veni Vidi Vishy
The supremacy of logic over superstition allowed Vishy Anand to become a worthy world champion
Let My Pieces Sing
'Perhaps it was Philidor's prodigious musical intuition that somehow gave him a special insight into how the chess pieces should be harmonised'