As Britain gears up for a general election on 5 May, the Green Party is the latest to unveil their manifesto. The Greens put climate change at the top of
In the openDemocracy blog oD Today, Anthony Barnett (founder of Charter 88 and openDemocracy) argues that that British political system is totally fucked.
But in at least one respect, the
You don't have to go far to find ill-informed, verging on hysterical predictions about peak oil and dire energy futures. One of the worst offenders is James Howard
Many thanks to China Confidential and Riding Sun for expanding on stories heard over the weekend of riots in and around Huankantou Village, eastern China. The protests against pollution from
On DoWire.org, e-democracy guru Steve Clift has made a wiki for UK election websites. If you know any interesting sites that are not on the list, you can add
The BBC reports that at least 17 people have been killed and more than 100 are feared trapped after a nine-storey factory building collapsed in Savar, 32km (20 miles) north-west
Just when we were getting used to the bizarre idea of Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, Citizens for Global Solutions remind us it's last chance
openDemocracy's Becky Hogge writes another great article. On O'Reilly, she welcomes the Creative Commons copyright license to the UK. She explains the legal difference between the
The third Arab Human Development Report was released this week after three months delay, allegedly due to American and Egyptian objections to the report's criticism of the war
Apropos the UK election on the Web and trusting Tony, does anybody really believe Tony Blair's Campaign Diary (written in the first person) is really written by him?
A new sin has sprung up in France: "papolatrie", or pope worship. Today's IHT describes the debate sparked by the government marking the pope's
The public row over the choice of Nick Herbert to be the Arundel and South Downs constituency candidate for the Tory Party is only half of the story. It is
