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Back in 2002, I came across an old copy of Hilaire Belloc's book The Old Road.   It was being sold off for 40p by my local library, alon...

I watched the so-called debate that wasn't a debate with rising incredulity that any two men aspiring to the highest office in the last ...

I’ve always believed that fairy tales have a role in understanding the contemporary world, and therefore of politics. This sounds a little...

If all philosophy is footnotes to Plato, as they say, I have been wondering whether all politics might be footnotes to Tolstoy.  I've b...

My father got cross with me when I was sixteen for insisting that I wanted to stick solidly to the arts subjects for my A Levels.  He insist...

I've decided it is time that I asserted my rights as the person who coined the phrase 'virtual currencies', which I'm inform...

The sad tale of financial regulators is the same sad tale of regulators everywhere. There is an inevitable, even biblical, tendency for the...