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That's Stella Rimington, former head of MI5. Her Guardian interview is so packed with good sense that I'll have to quote it at le...

Here's an old but wonderful essay drawing out the many connections between the Magna Carta and the commons. Its sweep is broad: While ...

Nice : Today, however, such clotheslines are considered blight. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal (September 18, 2007, p.1) repo...

Hmm, disturbing .

How's this for a confluence : Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth interne...

The article may be old, but the issue of open source war - the kind currently being waged in Iraq, for example - is sadly bang up to date (...

Nice piece in The Independent about a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the cost of capping greenhouse emissions: The cost of curbing ...

I came across this story about Google winning an award as part of the "Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy" taking part in the suit...