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James Woudhuysen
The right to bear
3D-printed arms
The US authorities are armed to the teeth, and we're panicking about citizens printing out rubbish guns?
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| Thursday 11 April 2013 |
Ann Furedi
Why shouldn’t human beings play God?
Read Living Marxism’s 1989 interview with test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards, who died this week.
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| Wednesday 13 February 2013 |
Colin McInnes
All hail the arrival of the robots
The raising of economic productivity through automation will free humans to do more interesting things instead.
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| Tuesday 5 February 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
Giving free speech a hammering
It’s time to lift the wig on all the libertarian posturing: judge-sanctioned free speech is not free at all.
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| Thursday 25 October 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
A disaster that science brought upon itself
The jailing of scientists for failing to predict an earthquake is the sad conclusion to the scientific community’s depiction of itself as soothsayer.
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| Tuesday 7 August 2012 |
Timandra Harkness
A bold step towards
putting man on Mars
NASA’s technological triumph of landing the Curiosity rover on the Red Planet is a testament to human ingenuity.
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| Monday 6 August 2012 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Freewheelin’
with the truth
Why was US journalist Jonah Lehrer shamed for making up Dylan quotes and not for his cod-neuroscience?
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| Monday 28 May 2012 |
Norman Lewis
Why I don’t ‘Like’ this mauling of Zuckerberg
ESSAY: There are two ugly strains to the post-IPO Facebook-bashing: naivety about how the market works and hostility to individual ambition.
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| Thursday 3 May 2012 |
Rob Lyons
There’s no such thing as a natural drought
Never mind the lack of rain in recent UK winters - it is our willingness to invest and build big that has really dried up.
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| Thursday 22 March 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why clicktivism now makes us switch off
President Obama is better than most politicians at exploiting social media, but even he can fall victim to mocking memes.
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| Wednesday 15 February 2012 |
Norman Lewis
Facebook valuation: $100 billion for what?
Yes, if FB were a country it would be the third largest. It would also be the most unproductive country ever.
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| Tuesday 24 January 2012 |
Theresa Clifford
A mega attack on internet freedom
You don’t have to be a fan of the juvenile people behind Megaupload to be worried by the crackdown against it.
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| Monday 7 November 2011 |
David Perks
There’s more to science than ridiculing fools
The science-led campaign against TV psychic Sally Morgan has the whiff of a modern-day witch hunt.
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| Friday 12 August 2011 |
Hayley Watson
No, it was not the Blackberry wot dunnit
The smart-phone riots? Technology is about as capable of causing riots as a car is of driving a man.
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| Thursday 26 May 2011 |
Colin McInnes
How hyper-mobility can change the world
By investing in faster and cheaper transportation, we can truly realise the dream of a global village.
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| Friday 13 May 2011 |
Tim Black
The tyranny of science
More and more scientists fancy themselves as gods, with a duty to enlighten those who are ‘deluded to the point of perversity’.
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Tim Black
On the wrong track over iPhone privacy
Campaigners should worry less about gadgets recording our locations and more about why society doesn't value privacy.
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| Wednesday 9 March 2011 |
Colin McInnes
Dimming the light on human ingenuity
The candle-lit world of Earth Hour is a decadent celebration of an era that we ought to be glad we’ve left behind.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
James Woudhuysen
Big Pharma, small ambition
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
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| Monday 18 October 2010 |
Craig Fairnington
There’s more to science than making money
Pro-science protesters are playing a dangerous game by arguing against government cuts on economic grounds only.
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