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This is a collection of other articles I have written that are still topical but not necessarily current. It includes five articles that I wrote for and were published in the Athens News between December 1998 and August 2000.

Spin Nation
January 2006—British political jargon...more
Jeremy Vine: “What is Democracy”
November 2005—The government is defeated...more
Human gadget interaction
October 2005—Don’t get religious, let the market decide...more
‘Idiology’
September 2005—Ideologues have no idea...more
Viagra for the British economy?
July 2005—Or maybe a dose of Chinese medicine...more
Trusting Phonics
May 2005—The state of social science research...more
A vote for third-helpings
April 2005—The election is probably a foregone conclusion...more
New Labour’s “Pepsi Challenge”
February 2005—The social democratic consensus is unhealthy...more
Democracy and the Rule of Law
December 2004—Indefinite detention is struck down...more
How people work
August 2004—A review of “How the Mind Works” by Steven Pinker...more
The Council Tax and other animals
July 2004—A debate on local taxation in Britain...more
Guessing the future (3)
March 2004—Bill Emmott in the spotlight, part 3...more
Guessing the future (2)
March 2004—Bill Emmott in the spotlight, part 2...more
Guessing the future (1)
February 2004—Bill Emmott and Bernard Lewis in the spotlight...more
The wisdom of Hutton
February 2004—Should we rely on the probity of judges?...more
Beagle2 whimpers
January 2004—The British visit to Mars is an embarrassment...more
Blurred Vision
October 2003—Tony Blair speaks to Jeremy Vine...more
An Illiberal Education
July 2003—Simon Heffer rallies for the forces of conservatism...more
Intellectual thriller misses the mark
May 2003—A review of “The Silent Takeover”...more
The inexorable British state
September 2002—Sir Humphrey begins to look like a tired old joke...more
Reforming the House of Lords
June 2002—Some perhaps idealistic thoughts on Lords reform... more
Vote 2001: The Democratic Deficit
June 2001—Why the 2001 General Election was a shambles... more
The EU and the Crisis of Democracy
February 2001—The EU is top-heavy: can it be saved?... more
A Democratic Manifesto
October 2000—Democracy is essential...more
A Greek Software Juggernaut
August 2000—Singular S.A., a profile...more
Software Piracy in Greece
July 2000—A market in software thrives when the law is enforced...more
Post-Privatisation Electricity in UK
July 1999—The privatisation has only just been fixed... more
nOTEworthy Internet Access
May 1999—Streaming media is just around the corner...more
PMP Up the Volume
February 1999—The RIAA should stop prosecuting potential customers...more
The future for Linux
December 1998—Microsoft may at last have some competition...more
Towards a paperless world
December 1996—Computers and the ergonomics of paper...more
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
November 1991—Questors for artificial intelligence are misguided...more
The poverty of Utilitarianism
July 1989—A flawed attempt at a rational morality...more