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 earlier, and was missing it terribly. Alan is rightly described as a journalist’s journalist - and...
Here’s the premise for the recently banned videogame, Manhunt 2. ‘An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong. Daniel is sent to the Dixmor Asylum, where six years later a freakish storm of lightning hits the power,...
The response to Salman Rushdie’s knighthood has been predictable, as Muslim leaders and politicians compete with each other to register their outrage – if Rushdie gets an honour, it must be an affront to Islam. Let’s get one thing straight. This is...
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 issue he’s got absolutely right. Last week, to the enormous surprise of much of London’s...
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 grotesquely exaggerated, they say, its scope misunderstood by ignorant people who attribute to it...
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 present threat of ‘Muslim anger’, the Crown Prosecution Service, in the end, declined to press...
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 bolshy awkward shouty people and always have been. However, one particular awkward shouty person got...
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 perspective of Chavez admirers it was a simple matter of putting some order in the airwave spectrum...
The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill introduced into the House of Commons as a private members bill by Conservative MP David Maclean, would, under normal circumstances, have been killed immediately. Very few private members bills ever get...