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Twitter trolls and the Health Bill
The NHS twitter trolls were out in force late last night and got up early this morning. “@oliver_wright, govt stooge & serial falsifier of fact and smear artist extraordinaire upto his usual tricks...
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Opera for the masses, by the masses?
In a disused tin-plate factory in a backstreet of Digbeth in Birmingham, an extraordinary thing is happening – a brand new, full-scale opera is being born. This can only mean one thing – world-renowned...
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‘Abortion industry’: A slur on the women who support their choice
“This is not a decision I have taken lightly and I don’t need to be harassed,” wrote one woman recently. “I felt calm coming here and now I can’t breathe and feel panicky and judged. Last thing I...
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Free speech is the real loser in Terry v Ferdinand
The least troubling aspect of the John Terry case for me is the revelation that footballers shout offensive and unpleasant obscenities at rivals in the heat of a football game. Even those of us who...
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Anders Breivik: Narcissist. Murderer. Insane?
The case of Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo and the island of UtØya in July 2011 is unusual, to say the least. Not only were the killings horrific in their calm and calculated brutality,...
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Privacy challenges ahead 2013
Joe Bloggs wishes to use a pseudonym on Facebook as he does not want his employer and his tutors to know that he has an account. Or, Jane does not wish to have her Google services merged into one account
View ArticleAn open letter to Melanie Phillips
The Daily Mail columnist feels that conservative thinkers are being stifled by a deadening left-wing consensus. I beg to differ…
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Where foraging’s concerned, there’s no such thing as a free lunch
Ripping up clumps of wild plants to eat is not getting in touch with nature - it's vandalism.
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Narendra Modi merges myth and reality to say plastic surgery fixed Ganesh’s...
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has caused some consternation and controversy by saying to an audience of doctors and scientists last weekend that plastic surgery and genetic science existed and...
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India at last commemorates, with Britain, its role in the ‘forgotten’ 1914-18...
It has taken a century for Britain and India to commemorate more than 70,000 Indian troops who died fighting in World War One, and it has taken India over 60 years to decide fully to mark the fallen...
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After 30 years (tonight), little hope for Union Carbide’s Bhopal victims and...
BHOPAL: India’s central government and the state government of Madhya Pradesh are in denial over the scale of the tragedy that occurred 30 years ago (right) when at least 5,000 people died here in a...
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Indian government tries to block revealing BBC rape film
The Indian government is adept at shooting itself in the foot, especially on social issues. In the past three days, it has done this spectacularly by trying – and failing – to impose an international...
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