It seems that Tony Blair has managed to get out of 10 Downing Street before he was led away in handcuffs for selling peerages, or arraigned before an international court
The Falklands war of April-June 1982 was a shaping moment in the current history of Britain. It may seem a less strange episode now, after Iraq. Tony Blair made the
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* Anna Wilson, Saqi books
* Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy
Anna Wilson, Saqi books
I spent many happy hours looking for things with Mai. Some of our most fruitful conversations and ideas emerged
The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they
In his first article for openDemocracy Hrant Dink observed that "the relationship between Turkey and the EU is governed less by reciprocal desire than by fear". His conclusion:
Among the most revolting aspects of the hanging of Saddam Hussein on 30 December were his final words, apparently spoken just before his last prayer. He rebuked the grotesque taunting
Orhan Pamuk gets the Nobel prize for literature. Most commentators will take their cue from the politics of the award, Pamuk being among the first writers to be put on
There are ideas of Europe. There is the European process. There is the infamous bureaucracy of the European Union. There is the euro. But is there a living, breathing Europe?
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Nearly five years after the "axis of evil" speech, the thing that continues to annoy is how President Bush, prime minister Blair and now Israeli spokesmen claim
Turkey is a hinge country for the world's future: geographically bestriding Europe and Asia; bordering Iran, Iraq and the European Union; the historic ruler of the middle east;
The end of the cold war in 1989 opened the way for the extension of democratic government to many countries around the world. Now, terrorism, fundamentalism and the imposition of
