by Tony Curzon Price
Downing Street has received 1 million signatures on its official petition-collection site from motorists asking not to have their roads priced per journey. "Populism&
by Sarah Lindon
The deadline for submissions has passed and your paragraphs are in. So now it falls to the selection team to decide who gets the top of the
by Jessica Reed
If you think that being in the midst of its third wave, the gender equality movement cannot improve the lives of million of girls and women worldwide,
by Tan Copsey
After last nights unsurprising, but very welcome news, that Al Gore has finally won something. I was pleased to read on Grist that in the face of
by Tan Copsey and the openDemocracy staff
Hot on the heals of the news that Fox News will follow its shiny new Titanic The 1/2 Hour News Hour, with
From the NYTimes:
An Alexandria court sentenced a blogger, Abdel Kareem Nabil, to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt’s president through his Internet writings. It was
by Tan Copsey
Something of a diplomatic incident is evolving in the waters off Antartica, as Japan, New Zealand, and a variety of gung-ho environmental groups, do battle for
by Tan Copsey
Continuing on today’s riff of environmental stories emerging from depths of the south pacific – The Independent was moved to ask ‘how many Australians does it take
by Jessica Reed
Following yesterday's entry about torture-enthusiastic tv show 24, a Salon article contextualises torture in an article detailling the "Ghosts of Abu Graib"
By Rafael Broch
Cherie Booth's welcomers in Kigali today have much to smile about.
Ten years ago, amid the ash and ruins of Rwanda's genocide, a
by Jessica Reed
Bauer: worst desktop picture ever?Earlier today as Kanishk Tharoor and I were discussing the 'merits' of the TV series 24 he mentionned an interesting
by Jessica Reed
Following my last entry following presidential candidate Ségolène Royal's speech, a reader pointed out that Nicolas Sarkozy was still ahead in the polls. Meanwhile left-
