If tragedy appals and evokes empathy, then happier events often give way to pleasant banality. Yesterday was of the latter kind. There seemed little to add to the promise of Northern Ireland’s new political leadership to build a new future, other than to wish them well in realising that promise and let them get on ...
This essay appears in this month’s edition of Prospect magazine. In it I’ve tried to chart the lengthy political career of Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland’s single most enduring political figure whose career spans the period before during and after the Troubles. ...
Front page of the LA Times yesterday, the Digg website is facing a revolution because it tried to ban its users from recommending an illegal code that helps people pirate copies of online movies. ...