Turkey-Iraq anti-terrorism deal
Long-brewing tensions between Ankara and Baghdad seem to have cooled with the signing of a joint anti-terrorism pact targeted against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. Militants
Jon Bright (London, OK): I was hovering by the bar at the above named Manifesto Club night yesterday evening at Islington's Old Queens Head. The idea of the
Jean Lambert (London, MEP): The Green Party is about to ballot its members on whether we should change one of the most unique aspects of our organisation - the absence
Jon Bright (London, OK): I'm going to be sprucing up the site a little bit over the next couple of hours. Lots of layout and colour scheme changes
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): In Jack Straw’s latest salvo against the Conservative’s policy of English Votes on English Matters (Living with West Lothian, Prospect Magazine, October 07) he
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): So Boris has won the race and become the Tory candidate for London. By a landslide. No surprise there, but when momentum starts... Coming back from
Israel closes in on Gaza
Israeli military raids on the Gaza Strip have killed 11 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. Since Israeli officials declared the Hamas-led Gaza Strip an
Jon Bright (London, OK): Interesting rumblings in the Welsh blogosphere over Brown's Monday speech - like everyone else, they've picked up on how many times he
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just back from the Labour Party conference where I spoke at an ippr fringe on the Dog and Duck question of whether anyone cares about the
Jon Bright (London, OK): Legendary hardman John Whitaker Straw is all over the press today as he announces a beefing up of the law covering self-defence, in our favour (unless
David Smith (Weymouth, Saving Democracy): The Liberal Democrats are to be congratulated on taking democratic reform more seriously than of late, and for their paper "For the People by
Des Browne: talk to the Taliban
Speaking at the ongoing Labour Party conference, UK Defence Secretary Des Browne has said that any peace process in Afghanistan would invariably have to
