Unenlightened Commentary.

Jonathan Freedland writes about the Premier League's new television deal and how it shows that English football is now a global product ...

Something I hadn't realised about Brewdog when I did my unpaid advertising for them on Friday, is that in one important way they have in...

There is a lot to admire about the Scottish brewery Brewdog, the guys at Samizdata have previously celebrated Brewdog's glorious contemp...

It is good to learn something new and unexpected about a subject which you believed you had thought about it some depth. The economist Paul ...

Diana Ramazanova always dreamed of controlling her own destiny, but when she was growing up in Dagestan, she was told she should marry a ma...

Garry Kasparov : The difference between a genius & a politician. Alan Turing invents a computer to crack encryption. David Cameron w...

When journalists are killed for expressing their views, it is one step away from burning books, said Annette Gerhard, 60.

It is fully understandable that many publications have declined to print the cartoons of the prophet Muhammed both by Charlie Hebdo and by t...

The Charlie Hebdo massacre disturbs me more than most terrorist attacks I must admit, because unlike the slaughter of random people i...

I was supposed to meet someone today to let me in to see a building, after a while with no one showing up I asked my office to find out wher...

For some reason an upcoming Channel 4 comedy about the Irish Potato Famine is attracting criticism : After creating uproar with its cove...

I am currently reading The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser, which is a history of the border reivers- the violent and wild people ...

My prediction is that because this looks like the toughest election in the UK to predict in my lifetime, any predictions that are made will ...

An overlooked story of 2014, overlooked by me at least, is the decision by MPs to partially untie pub landlords from the pub companies. This...

A couple of statistics about Germany : Among more than 600 members of management and supervisory boards at Germany’s 30 largest companie...

Perhaps we should get Sabrina Rubin Erdely to investigate these claims : Detectives are investigating three alleged murders as part of a...

In the comments under an article about Russia's economic collapse, one commentator writes : Stuck for ...