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.

Some of ourKingdom's best...

To give a flavour of the writing that ourKingdom has featured since its launch, we have selected a few highlights:Who Makes the Law in EnglandJohn Jackson on judicial overreachThe

By Thomas Ash

/ 15 Feb 2009

Modern technology and modern liberty

Thomas Ash (Oxford, OK): Tony Curzon Price, openDemocracy's editor-in-chief, recently published the first part of what looks likely to be a fascinating series of articles on how technological

By Thomas Ash

/ 12 Feb 2009

American perceptions of the Mumbai attacks

Until it hit the headlines after the Mumbai attacks, India did not tend to receive much attention in the international press - at least not as much attention as China,

By Thomas Ash

/ 29 Nov 2008

Uncharacteristically feverish rhetoric from Minnesota

Tempers are flaring in Minnesota, a state that has long prided itself on what its residents call 'Minnesota nice' (for an amusing portrayal of this style of behaviour,

By Thomas Ash

/ 24 Nov 2008

Hillary Clinton: a good Secretary of State?

A picture of Barack Obama's cabinet is starting to emerge, and it is not pleasing his more left-wing supporters. Some of them were already unhappy about the appointment

By Thomas Ash

/ 22 Nov 2008

Will Obama govern from the left?

The tea leaves are ready, and the crystal balls are out. Now that the campaign is over, everyone's attention is focused on predicting what sort of president Barack

By Thomas Ash

/ 19 Nov 2008

Democrats ask: "Will no one rid us of Joe Lieberman?"

Senator Joe Lieberman has been a thorn in the Democrats' side for a long time, but relations have only worsened since Connecticut primary voters booted him off the party

By Thomas Ash

/ 14 Nov 2008

The electoral college is still a poor system

Last Tuesday, Barack Obama won clear majorities in both the electoral college and the popular vote. Their divergence in 2000 remains an aberration in American political history; remarkably, the parties&

By Thomas Ash

/ 10 Nov 2008

Gay marriage: what now?

Dennis highlights the success of California's Proposition 8, which amends the state constitution to ban gay marriage. This was a bitter note in Tuesday's results, made

By Thomas Ash

/ 6 Nov 2008

Is this what a landslide looks like?

With almost all states called, we have a pretty good picture of the electoral map. It looks like this: Though not quite the stuff of Democrats' wildest fantasies (which

By Thomas Ash

/ 5 Nov 2008

Barack Obama will be the next President

The networks are calling crucial state after crucial state for Obama, and Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has just called the whole race. Upsets can always happen, but I think

By Thomas Ash

/ 5 Nov 2008

Senate races to watch

If the Presidential race provides insufficient drama tonight, watch out for the results of the Senate races also taking place. There look likely to be some real nail-biters. Foremost among

By Thomas Ash

/ 4 Nov 2008