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.

Re: A neo-liberal nihilism?

An OurKingdom conversation. [History: Thomas Ash > David Marquand > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel > this post > George Gabriel] George Gabriel is

By Thomas Ash

/ 22 Jun 2009

Re: A neo-liberal nihilism?

An OurKingdom conversation. [History: Thomas Ash > David Marquand > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel > this post > George Gabriel > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel] I want to

By Thomas Ash

/ 17 Jun 2009

Marquand's hopes for "moral reform"

An OurKingdom conversation. [History: this post > David Marquand > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel > Thomas Ash > George Gabriel] As Britain plunges

By Thomas Ash

/ 4 Jun 2009

The Tories' authoritarian tendencies

Craig Murray has an interesting post today about 'The Deepest Split in the Tory Party' - that between libertarians and authoritarians. It reiterates the fear, widespread among civil

By Thomas Ash

/ 21 Apr 2009

Mash the State

Over on Liberal Conspiracy, Adrian Short announces Mash the State, a new campaign to get governmental information available in accessible formats - RSS feeds from councils are the first example

By Thomas Ash

/ 20 Apr 2009

ISP data retention snuck in by EU directive

Henry Porter sounds a valuable alarm in the Guardian yesterday: Today, an EU directive comes into force which will compel all internet service providers to retain information from all emails

By Thomas Ash

/ 7 Apr 2009

Arrested for returning a lost phone to the police

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): On Wednesday the Daily Mail ran a report which would have seemed like an April Fools' story were it not entirely of a piece with

By Thomas Ash

/ 5 Apr 2009

Coming to a billboard near you...

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): While jogging through the outskirts of Oxford today, I noticed this striking hoarding: Note the CCTV camera watching over its children like a vigilant father. It

By Thomas Ash

/ 30 Mar 2009

Leaked Barclays memos escape to the internet

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): At the start of this week, the Guardian published a number of internal memos from Barclays detailing the ways in which the Structured Capital Markets division

By Thomas Ash

/ 20 Mar 2009

Tom Griffin explores the Irish republican tradition

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): Shortly after the attack at Massereene army base early this month, OurKingdom's own Tom Griffin posted a brief discussion of the many attempts that

By Thomas Ash

/ 19 Mar 2009

Philip Pullman's keynote address at the Convention on Modern Liberty

Video and audio recordings of the Convention on Modern Liberty are steadily appearing on the Convention website, modernliberty.net. Many of the sessions were apparently fascinating, so I recommend keeping

By Thomas Ash

/ 18 Mar 2009

Do our politicians understand what 'freedom of speech' means?

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): I've been surprised at some of the people defending Jacqui Smith's refusal to allow the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to enter the

By Thomas Ash

/ 22 Feb 2009