Mark Thomas
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Society
Mark Thomas imagines a UK without migrants
- 14 February 2005
Michael Howard is going so far to the right on immigration that he'll soon decide to make his ideas retrospective and deport himself. But Charles Clarke is determined to outdo him
Society
Mark Thomas calculates our torture quota
- 31 January 2005
The Conservative plan for an annual asylum-seeker quota is brilliant. What the Tories need now is some imaginative ideas on how to make it work
Society
Mark Thomas writes a column offensive to Christians
- 17 January 2005
Why are evangelical Christians so upset at a musical that shows Jesus calling himself "a bit gay"? According to the Bible, he was arrested for kissing a man in a public park
World Affairs
Mark Thomas finds corruption sadly unregulated
- 01 January 2005
UK arms firms will get advance warning of any SFO investigation for corruption. This is like the police telling crack dealers that the sniffer dog has a cold, so they'll pop round later
Society
Mark Thomas reveals UK sales of torture equipment
- 06 December 2004
The law is clear that shock batons are instruments of torture. So why are they featured, together with stun guns, as items for sale on a UK website?
World Affairs
Mark Thomas asks what is the point of Band Aid
- 22 November 2004
The trouble with Band Aid is that you can buy the single, think you have done your bit and walk away none the wiser about the causes of poverty in the developing world
Society
Mark Thomas finds that Voltaire has been rewritten
- 08 November 2004
Although the nearest we get to oppression of comedians is to remove Jim Davidson's driving licence biannually, Britain is still an illiberal nation when it comes to free speech
Society
Mark Thomas likes the idea of a Thatcher in jail
- 25 October 2004
Next time you are depressed, summon up the image of Margaret Thatcher perhaps having to visit her son in a developing world jail, and facing the indignity of a strip-search
Politics
Mark Thomas writes an open letter to a minister
- 11 October 2004
Is the British government helping to train Colombian military units suspected of killing trade unionists and campaigners against privatisation?
