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Since the Royal Mail seems intent on ritual disembowelling before our very eyes, I suppose we are going to have to expect to deal a lot more...

I went to the annual Schumacher lectures in Bristol on Saturday, and fascinating it was. In fact, so fascinating, that it has led me to try...

Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel prize for economics is good news for Liberals everywhere, but it is also a challenge for Liberal Democrats. Her work ...

Well, I can’t say this has ever happened to me before – I’ve just been detained under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. That only meant being...

I must say, I cheered when I read about Philip Pullman and his friends, and their brave stand against the government’s latest child protecti...

The real motive power behind fascism isn’t racism or monopoly power or any of the other aspects that scare us about the BNP. Those things w...

I don’t buy all this nonsense from the architects about Prince Charles. It is an irony that it takes someone’s inherited influence to rein t...