Tomorrow is election day here in Britain, and that headline is unlikely to grace the front page of any of our newspapers on the morning after. But it’s a real headline and it describes what…

By the summer of 1942, the outcome of the second world war was easy to predict.  The German U-boat operations in the North Atlantic were proving increasingly successful in sinking Allied ships.  In North Africa,…

Today is Blog Action Day and the subject this year is inequality.  Which has led me to think about its opposite, equality.  And having lived for many years in what was one of the most…

I have just received an email message from 38 Degrees, an online campaigning organization in the UK that claims to have three million members of which, apparently, I am one.  The subject line is “Islamic…

I recently read Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle, which describes a world in which a Facebook-Google-like company takes over people’s lives and brings about a complete end to privacy. Some would describe the book…

That headline will seem premature to post people, but any strictly military analysis of what’s happened in the last month confirms Hamas’ defeat. This was supposed to be a war that would see Tel Aviv…

Firefox OS is rapidly expanding — see this graphic from Mozilla. Maybe the audience for my latest book, Firefox OS for Activists (co-authored with Jeremy Green) will grow as a result.  

The Islamist terror group Hamas cannot conquer Israel; in fact, it can’t even run the Gaza Strip.  Unable to provide anything useful for the Palestinians, it engages in endless and pointless confrontations with Israel. The…

“The policy of Russia is changeless … Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy — world domination — is a fixed star.” — Karl Marx, 1867 That…

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” – Dr Emmett Brown, Back to the Future (1985) I hardly ever use phones.  Like many people, I do most of my communication either face to face,…