I’ve got to admit I was thrilled when Alan told me he was thinking of putting in for the Gaza job. I’d left the Strip about a year...
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Video nasty
Here’s the premise for the recently banned videogame, Manhunt 2. ‘An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong....
In defence of imagination
The response to Salman Rushdie’s knighthood has been predictable, as Muslim leaders and politicians compete with each other to register their...
This foolish boycott will solve nothing
Lord knows, I’ve had my differences with Ken Livingstone, especially when it comes to the politics of the Middle East - but there’s one...
The prince and the paper
It is one of the most common refrains of the lawyers who run modern Britain under the cloak of New Labour: the effect of the Human Rights Act is...
Drawing it on yourself
It ended, as fusses often do, with an almost inaudible whimper. After articles in the red-tops, columns in the Sundays, fury on blogs, and the ever...
Taking liberties
The right to tell your government what you think of them is supposed to be a fundamental cornerstone of the British democracy. We are a nation of...
Censorship in Venezuela: the RCTV case
The non-renewal of the licence of RCTV, Venezuela’s main private TV station, has been portrayed very differently depending on whom you ask. From the...
Lords must defend Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill introduced into the House of Commons as a private members bill by Conservative MP David Maclean, would,...