A Culture of Death

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and...

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The Right-Wing Ukraine Divide Returns

President Donald Trump reignited a fierce debate within the American right on October 10, when he made some aggressive remarks about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Zelensky could’ve settled this war many times,” Trump said. “He chooses not to. Very...

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What the UK Terror Law Really Protects

That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature and name is chang'd; to be Then humble to her is idolatry. ~ John Donne, Satire III Seven activists smashed their way into an engineering plant at Sandwich, Kent, before dawn on 17 June 2024....

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The Spy Chief Who Was Caught by Accident

In February 2003, the intelligence that August Hanning's service had handed to Washington turned up in Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council, in the case for invading Iraq. On the morning of 6 October 2026, masked officers walked Hanning,...

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