Those words used in the title of this posting were used by Ming Campbell today to make the point that Labour, so keen to tell us that we need ID cards because "If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear", are running scared (with lots of Tory support) or providing the Freedom of Information re...

Download | Play    Download | Play On CNN's "State of the Union" this morning with John King, I heard something that almost made me choke. King interviewed Charlie Swift, a formal Naval defense attorney, and former Bush defense policy advisor Doug "Stupidest Guy in the World" Feith ab...

American presidents and their staff work for the American people, they are not monarchs with an inner court of priviliged nobles. President Obama has reminded all his predecessors of that simple fact, living up to a campaign promise to "nullify attempts to make the timely release of presidentia...

Time to flex your typing fingers as there is a fairly urgent need to contact your MP today. It seems that the government has been caught in the act of “burying bad news” and chose the day that the media (and everyone else) would be talking about the Heathrow runway expansion to slip thro...

MPs face an internet backlash over plans to keep the details of their expenses secret, it emerged today. The creators of the non-partisan websites TheyWorkForYou.com and WriteToThem.com have started a Facebook campaign against the proposals to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act. Supporte...

Well, of course they do! You didn't think they were going to start following the laws at this late date, did you? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is aggressively pushing back against a federal court order instructing the most important offices in the White House to preserve all of their ...

RTFA: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/0812… The first edition of “Atom Bombs” was completed in 2003. With the publication of the book, which has since undergone several hundred revisions, Coster-Mullen became a leading member of the loosely organized scholarly fratern...

by Walter Brasch The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and t...

The row over why police were allowed to raid an MP's parliamentary office escalated today when opposition parties threatened to pull out of an inquiry into the incident. Theresa May, the shadow leader of the Commons, accused ministers of trying to "pack" a committee – announced by the Speaker, Mic...

A favorite debate of pessimistic sophomores, or perhaps sophomoric pessimists, is as to whether our society and its future is more like George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It’s such a common juxtaposition and so simple to talk about it that I bring it up at the...