By Jessica Reed
A couple of days ago I blogged about how the Indian blogosphere had proved to be incredibly helpful for thousands of Internet users wanting to talk, share,
By Malcolm Siret & Jessica Reed
The force with which Israel has hit back at the Lebanese people - for acts carried out by the Shia Muslim organisation Hezbollah (now
By Maryann Bird
Like the earth itself, the debate on global warming and how to address the challenges it presents is heating up in Britain. Turning up the gas, of
Akbar Ganji, the Iranian journalist, activist and dissident is no stranger to hunger strikes – he refused food for 80 days during his six-year incarceration for the 'crime' of
Saddam, along with three of his lawyers, began the latest in a long line of protests over trial proceedings last Friday with a hunger strike. This most recent effort shows
By Anthony Barnett
Poetic justice!
It is especially rare in British politics. After many years of getting away with it, from the early home loan scandal of his spin doctor
...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -
The US believes that China holds the key, and China believes it's the US.
China's influence could be the solution to the current crisis over North
The "NatWest Three" are an unlikely group to have so suddenly captured the hearts of a British public for whom disliking the upper-classes is something of a national
The British government's decision to pursue legal action against Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan) for publishing documents obtained under the 'Freedom of Information (FOI) Act&
by Jessica Reed
More than sixty African and European countries, along with twenty international NGOs and regional organisations will meet on the 10th and 11th of July at the first
The past seems to finally have caught up with Silvio Berlusconi.
Following defeats in the local andand general elections (just), his precious football toy AC Milan is now caught in
