George Monbiot: The Farming Lobby Has Wrecked Efforts to Defend Our [UK] Soil.

Europe's top court ruled against the publishers' "irrational" claims that looking at web pages is copyright infringement.

Vodaphone says that several governments tap into its phone calls directly.

The technological "advances" that make the difference between J Edgar Hoover's FBI and today's total surveillance state.

Christian and Jewish religious extremism can be seen in works of art that continue to be admired as classics.

At present, these works do not seem to inspire suicide bombers, but I won't take for granted that can't ever happen.