The new Britons
No need for another cricket test

‘They were completely naked together, so of course I was shocked and surprised that they then had sex’

Why Wal-Mart wants to sell ethanol
Envirocapitalism in America

Will the polluters pay for climate change?
The ethics of compensation

You can define a thing in many ways, especially when it’s an abstract concept (“terrorism”, “democracy”, “British values”…). You can define to persuade, by emphasising features you believe people will find desirable (or, in some cases, undesirable). Alternatively, you can define to exclude, emphasising features some people will find it impossible to sign up to. You can even define to provoke, emphasising features some people will positively object to; this is particularly effective when other listeners aren’t in on the disagreement in question, and are thus faced with the unattractive sight of a minority making a fuss about nothing.

A more radical approach, and one which New Labour is particularly fond of, is the un-definition or anti-definition. Read More

What Muslims want
… according to Jon Snow

Strategic bombing and double effect
Ethics and Israeli bombs

Carnival of Liberty 57

Anti-semitism and apartheid
Gaardner v. Sullivan reconsidered

Spamalot
Reading blogs of bile