Why has everyone in the (British) media been unable to resist damning the new Chronicles of Narnia film as "filthy CS Lewis propaganda masquerading as harmless, family fun"
Today, at 4:00pm, Sheila Jasanoff, Professor at Harvard University, gives a speech on how, following Hurricane Katrina, America rediscovered poverty. The physical risks of a Category 5 hurricane were
This, it seems, is the big one. After the interminable logistics briefings in the Convention Centre yesterday (during which one jet-lagged Fleet Street economics editor complained that he felt "
If Silvio Berlusconi's triumph in last month's Bad Democracy poll was startling, check out how far Australia's PM, John Howard, is leading this month.
Getting out of Iraq is shaping up to be the major topic of next year as Republicans try to limit the damage, allies get anxious about electoral disillusion and those,
Badme. A dusty village in Eastern Africa. Nothing really could distinguish this village form another in the area. Yet it has been the flashpoint of the two-year war between Eritrea
Huddled over an ale with War on Want's crack campaigners in Wan Chai last night, the conversation turned to Peter Mandelson. For all his proclamations of being "
As ministers from the WTO's 149 member states settled in to Hong Kong's shiniest hotels, local migrant workers and the vanguards of the international contingents of
Hong Kong Polytechnic University hosted a world premiere last night. If only Wayne Rooney's girlfriend had been present, the first screening of Focus on the Global South'
By night, the Hong Kong Exhibition and Conference centre is eerily quiet. The only sign of life are the expertly tailored heavies patrolling the perimeter. Staggeringly, the authorities have allowed
Saturday's South China Morning Press carries a report headlined: "Fortress Wan Chai prepares for worst." Anything an angry anti-capitalista could possibly lift in the area around
Are we too busy taking pictures of things to experience the here and now? Richard Marsden in Canada digs into oD archives and retrieves Marina Warner's compelling article,
