My long-developing article on CCTV in the UK and the growing surveillance state there has at long last been published by The Washington Monthly. One of the great pleasures of visiting London in January was meeting so many interesting people and hearing so many thoughtful ideas about my subject, and one of the pains of …
Visiting London last January, I met a woman named Diane Wei Liang. A former management professor, a writer of detective novels, a mother of two, Liang was someone I had seen serving as a commentator of the BBC. I thought she might add an interesting perspective to an article I was writing about the rise …
Another busy day, led off by a phone interview with David Davis, a conservative member of Parliament who was shadow Home Secretary. For those who don’t understand the British system, the out-of-power party has a shadow cabinet, so that when an election is called, voters know who will hold post if that party is elected. …