A proposed merger between Penguin and Simon & Schuster would be bad for everyone else, including authors.

The advocates of increased concentration of industry will always say that the merger of X and Y will make it big enough to compete better with giant Z. But that path leads to fewer and bigger companies. The right way to eliminate Z's advantage over X and Y is to make Z smaller or split it up!

The Tories rejected the amendment to save flat owners from paying enormous sums to repair fraudulent construction that made their buildings unsafe.

California is trying to spearhead requiring new guns to stamp cartridges to show which gun fired them.

It seems like a good idea to me.

*Europe and US could reach 'peak meat’ in 2025.*

I doubt I will ever eat imitation meat — but lots of vegetables that are proud to be vegetables are delicious.

Builders in the UK went on strike in 1972 and were prosecuted for picketing. Just now an appeals court threw out the convictions.