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Thomas Ash was associate editor and web development consultant at openDemocracy, where he built the current site. He now works for New Internationalist magazine, and his personal website on philosophy is PhilosoFiles.com.

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Infographic: social deprivation in riot hotspots

Thomas Ash 11 August 2011

Correlation is not causation, so we’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Euthanasia: a good thing?

Thomas Ash 17 June 2011

Does public prejudice condemn many to unnecessarily prolonged and painful deaths? Thomas Ash considers the philosophical arguments for and against

The Tories get the burglar vote...

Thomas Ash 10 March 2010

Labour's disgraceful new attack on the Conservatives' opposition to their DNA database

Air traffic control: the last obstacle to police drones?

Thomas Ash 16 February 2010

Freedom of information and the aftermath of climategate

Thomas Ash 16 February 2010

Gordon's reply to Anthony

Thomas Ash 4 February 2010

President's questions

Thomas Ash 1 February 2010

Watch a riveting and almost unprecedented exchange between President Obama and the congressional Republicans

I'm overdosing tomorrow - care to join?

Thomas Ash 29 January 2010

The 10.23 campaign is organising a national homeopathic overdose to protest pseudo-science and the wasting of taxpayer money

Tony Blair and the imperial temptation in Britain and America

Thomas Ash 27 January 2010

Ahead of Blair's testimony on the Iraq war, it is worth considering a recent exchange in the American blogosphere which illustrates the imperial temptation in the politics of both nations

We don't live in a police state, but we are going to be watched by aerial drones

Thomas Ash 25 January 2010

Extraordinary plans by police in the UK to use unmanned spy drones to monitor antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers

Dear Mandy

Thomas Ash 5 January 2010

A satirical video complaining about Britain's proposed Digital Economy Bill

Green jobs for British workers?

Thomas Ash 18 December 2009

Peaceful protest, no placards allowed

Thomas Ash 10 December 2009

A protest in support of Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into dozens of US computers

Unilateral action on climate change

Thomas Ash 7 December 2009

Why and how we should lead the way

Britain's new internet law

Thomas Ash 22 November 2009

Britain's alarming Digital Economy Bill

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