As I mentioned in an earlier column, I am looking for some software which will help prolong my children's innocence. But preventing undesirable words or images from entering our family computer from...

The significance of Ian Hargreaves' dismissal from the editorship of the Independent

There has always been a tendency for people on the centre and left of politics to belittle the achievements of Friedrich Hayek, the great Austrian-British economist. He is usually regarded as a right...

The bridge carrying the M25 southwards into Kent juts up, like an awkward insect, beyond the dumpy dome and ready-made cornices of the Thurrock Lakeside shopping centre. The centre and the retail...

Attlee had left the steel barons alone

 

The meta-professor

Robert Reich, the US Secretary of Labour, argues that government can create incentives for companies to act in the public interest as well as their own

You must have heard. There's been a terrible scandal..." The librarian's breast was heaving fast. "It would have been simple if you had come before, but now..." Her whisper subsided in a long Russian...

You have to hand it to CompuServe. In a short space of time it has transformed itself from a boring near-monopoly into one of the most dynamic service providers on the planet. The threat of...