The acquittal of Greenpeace activists who vandalised a power station reveals a legal loophole vulnerable to political exploitation

In the age of the text-message, British gravestones are becoming less austere

Alternative therapy and made-up pagan rituals find their devotees among supposedly sophisticated city-dwellers

British politicians anxious to combat juvenile obesity should learn from China, and rediscover an old dance

Britons' behaviour on the London Underground escalators shows the country has not yet lost all its charm and civility

The recession will refocus our financial priorities, and is as good a time as any to reassess the value of Fairtrade products

The interplay between planning rules and the rights of protected species is the perfect example of legislation having the opposite effect from what was intended

Cold War geopolitical terminology is obsolete. We need new terms to reflect a changed world

Jeremy Jennings dissects the work of the fashionable left-wing philosopher, who believes that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were too soft

Roger Kimball finds it strange that the author of the most pertinent works on Marxism is so little known