Individual liberty will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century. With fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos putting our ideals of it into retreat in recent years, how ...

Today, when 'anti-social behaviour' is a prominent political issue, people pine for 'lost values', and religious morality is re-asserting itself around the world - there are eerie parallels with the age ...

Satirist William Hone is the forgotten hero of the British press. In 1817 he was forced to defend himself against a censorious government, in what amounted to a show trial ...