Today's Web Grab

You might enjoy:

• George Packer in the New Yorker’s Interesting Times blog: On LBJ’s “peace speech”
• Brandon Keim in Wired Science: More on the role of psychologists in government-sponsored torture
• Chris Dillow: Over-selling science
• Michael White in Comment is free: Boris Johnson's perceived buffoonishness is exactly why many people like him. Labour may need a different point of attack in the mayoral election race