en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:16:42 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Ben Macintyre Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-03T07:35:46Z What tangled webs of deception have been revealed in recent days. From the Chilcot inquiry, to the debate over climate science and the sexual behaviour of the England football captain, nothing is quite as it seemed, it seems. Ben Macintyre Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-28T12:57:47Z In 1953, when the internet was not even a technological twinkle in the eye, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories: the hedgehog and the fox: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Ben Macintyre: Commentary Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-24T04:51:12Z Try to imagine this scene: Margaret Thatcher is in the dock and the cameras are whirring as granite-faced inquisitors demand that she publicly account for her actions. Why did she go to war? Did she wage war on a lie? Is there blood on her hands? Ben Macintyre Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-22T10:45:31Z Where does the fault lie in Haiti? For geologists, it lies on the line between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates. For some, the earthquake is evidence of God’s wrath: the American evangelist Pat Robertson has even suggested that the horror is recompense for some voodoo pact made with the Devil at Haiti’s birth. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-15T05:40:39Z This morning I asked my teenage son, as he was putting on his hoody, whether he felt his powers of language were being diminished by the abbreviated “teen-speak” of text messages.