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| Monday 18 July 2005 |
Mobile politics
Do mobile phones invade our privacy? British MPs give their views.
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| Thursday 26 May 2005 |
Why we need free speech online
In their crusade against 'hate speech', regulators want to subject all internet users to a system of parental controls.
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| Thursday 31 March 2005 |
Who’s to blame
A lifelong Doctor Who fan thinks the Tardis has been knocked off course by 'fanwankery'.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2004 |
What makes us exceptional?
New research could throw some light on the unique evolution of the human brain.
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| Friday 26 November 2004 |
Watching what we watch
An event on 'media literacy' gave a glimpse into the twilight world of Ofcom, the UK media regulator.
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| Friday 22 October 2004 |
Progress doesn’t just ‘emerge’
By championing spontaneous collectivism, internet geeks and gurus are giving up on human agency.
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| Tuesday 12 October 2004 |
Mourning the Man of Steel
The best tribute we could pay to the late Christopher Reeve is to champion medical science.
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| Tuesday 12 October 2004 |
Mourning the Man of Steel
The best tribute we could pay to the late Christopher Reeve is to champion medical science.
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| Friday 1 October 2004 |
Saving me from myself?
A chocolate-lover mourns the passing of the King-Size Mars Bar.
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| Wednesday 29 September 2004 |
The end of the web as we know it?
Rumours about the collapse of the internet are greatly exaggerated.
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| Wednesday 8 September 2004 |
Commercial brake
You need a PhD in gender studies to understand Ofcom’s decisions to ban – or not ban - adverts.
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| Wednesday 1 September 2004 |
Whose election is it anyway?
Websites encouraging 'global participation' in America's presidential election don’t know the meaning of democracy.
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| Friday 23 July 2004 |
Who wants to read an MP’s musings?
Politics-by-blogging is a sorry substitute for parliamentary debate.
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| Friday 16 July 2004 |
Blowing up the BNP
Media exposés like the BBC’s The Secret Agent have helped to transform a ragbag party into the talking point of British politics.
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| Wednesday 14 July 2004 |
Cinema of cynicism
Michael Moore brings anti-politics to the big screen.
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| Friday 2 July 2004 |
Culture warrior
American legal theorist Lawrence Lessig takes on the regulation that is hampering our use of books, music and film.
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| Friday 2 July 2004 |
‘Communication ethics’ and the new censorship
The threat to media freedom today comes not from bans, but from regulation in the name of promoting 'diversity' and 'media literacy'.
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| Tuesday 1 June 2004 |
The Day After Tomorrow
A brilliantly made piece of sci-fi hokum.
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| Wednesday 19 May 2004 |
Science, and fiction
The Day After Tomorrow confuses fact with fiction. That's fine for Hollywood. But why are scientists going along with the story?
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| Tuesday 11 May 2004 |
Building for the future
The new book Why is Construction so Backward? puts the case for bigger, better housing.
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