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.

Peaceful protest, no placards allowed

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

By Thomas Ash

/ 10 Dec 2009

Unilateral action on climate change

Why and how we should lead the way

By Thomas Ash

/ 7 Dec 2009

Britain's new internet law

Britain's alarming Digital Economy Bill

By Thomas Ash

/ 22 Nov 2009

Responses to Johnson on Bentham’s defense of usury

Earlier this month, Peter Johnson gave an account of Karl-Heinz Brodbeck's critique of the famous utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Benhtam's defence of usury, the charging of high rates of interest on money. Below, Tony Curzon Price and then Thomas Ash respond.

By Tony Curzon Price and Thomas Ash

/ 27 Oct 2009

Peter Johnson on breaking up the banks

Over at openEconomy, Peter Johnson has an interesting post on recent proposals that regulators partition the banks

By Thomas Ash

/ 23 Oct 2009

The Conservatives and the surveillance state

Interesting noises from the Conservatives on privacy and the database state. As you may have heard, Dominic Grieve, the shadow justice secretary, recently gave a major speech launching a policy

By Thomas Ash

/ 18 Sep 2009

Police surveillance

From the Durham Times, an alarming expansion of police surveillance and a reminder of the power of police forces to introduce far-reaching policies - including those which pose serious civil

By Thomas Ash

/ 12 Sep 2009

Save election night?

Plans are afoot in several constituencies to delay election counts from the nights of votes being cast to the day after. This threat to the tradition of election night results

By Thomas Ash

/ 11 Sep 2009

Daniel Hannan's criticisms of the NHS

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has been causing his party headaches by attacking the NHS on American television. The position this has earned him as a darling of the American right

By Thomas Ash

/ 18 Aug 2009

A Conservative Great Repeal Bill

Talk of a 'Great Repeal Bill' to roll back the tide of legislation and new governmental power brought us by both this government and its forerunners has come

By Thomas Ash

/ 8 Aug 2009

David Davis on a case of torture

In a House of Commons debate yesterday, David Davis detailed the case of Rangzieb Ahmed, a British citizen now convicted of terrorism, who was tortured by Pakistani authorities with the

By Thomas Ash

/ 8 Jul 2009

An OurKingdom exchange: Neo-liberal nihilism?

A debate on the morality of neo-liberalism - and of the bankers behind the financial crisis.

By Thomas Ash and George Gabriel

/ 23 Jun 2009