Jurors ‘may despise’ the way a reporter obtained information central to the prosecution case but are advised the method is irrelevant

But Labour will adopt one good policy. They will bring back rent controls. Facepalm. Second only to aerial bombing in a major war as a successful method of reducing the available housing stock. Doesn’t anyone actually remember? The 70s, early 80s? When it was near impossible to find rental property anywhere in the country? Who

David Cameron and Ed Miliband traded figures on unemployment - and which party had the better record - with the prime minister claiming the current counting method was frank and straightforward.

Yet government is nothing if it is not asserting moral imperatives and if it is not trying to act in a moral way Government is a method of working out who empties the rubbish bins not a form of moral imposition. As long as it’s consenting adults and they’re not frightening the horses the morals

Yet, like most economists, I don’t view the study of economics as laden with ideology. Most of us agree with Keynes, who said: “The theory of economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for

On tax evasion around the world. Impressive number crunching but sadly there’s a logical hole in it. His method has been to take the average tax rate, the size of the shadow economy and then multiply one by the other to give the amount of tax evasion. But that is making the assumption that all

Well, actually, there is. Ham can be seen as a method of curing meat*, not the name for the specific meat being cured. Thus a pastrami sandwich and a corned beef sandwich can be seen as being ham sandwiches. For the curing processes are the same as various ham curing processes.   *ie, we can

There a clear mismatch between G20 meeting agreements and their implementation afterwards, and the new global governance tool could benefit from the EU's experience of the Open Method of Coordination, argues Henning Meyer from the London School of Economics and Political Science. More »

A legal challenge to the government's method of increasing public sector pensions will begin in the High Court on Tuesday.

But, the report’s authors claim, GM crops are adding to food insecurity because most are now being grown for biofuels, which take away land from local food production. Governments are stupid enough to insist that food be put into cars not people, therefore a method of food production has failed? For our next logical trick