Thomas Ash

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.

Infographic: social deprivation in riot hotspots

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 11 Aug 2011

Euthanasia: a good thing?

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 17 Jun 2011

The Tories get the burglar vote...

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 10 Mar 2010

Air traffic control: the last obstacle to police drones?

Towards the end of January, I quoted from a Guardian report on police plans to use aerial drones - more famous as flying assassins for the US military - to

By Thomas Ash

/ 16 Feb 2010

Freedom of information and the aftermath of climategate

OurKingdom readers may recall the 'climategate' scandal that erupted last November after a hacker broke into servers at the University of East Anglia and leaked e-mails and data

By Thomas Ash

/ 16 Feb 2010

Gordon's reply to Anthony

In a post yesterday, Anthony Barnett assessed the Prime Minister's speech calling for a written constitution by 2015 and an immediate referendum on changing the voting system. Anthony

By Thomas Ash

/ 4 Feb 2010

President's questions

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 1 Feb 2010

I'm overdosing tomorrow - care to join?

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 29 Jan 2010

Tony Blair and the imperial temptation in Britain and America

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 27 Jan 2010

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

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 25 Jan 2010

Dear Mandy

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 5 Jan 2010

Green jobs for British workers?

As Copenhagen stutters to its conclusion, our attention should return again to what individual countries can do to tackle climate change absent a global deal sufficient to the problem. Most

By Thomas Ash

/ 18 Dec 2009