George Hewitt doesn't like the way:
"the torrent of media commentary on the Georgia-Russia war has been characterised by near-obsessive geopolitical calculation, which [...] tends by default to
Happy Man: Well, gosh, the Prime Minister has wised up to the tiny amount of UK residents who know what twitter is, and has launched number10.gov.uk, the official
Tom Griffin (London, OK): It's an interesting reflection on the rise of the database state that some of the best reporting on UK civil liberties these days can
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): There is a moving piece on Comment is Free today written by Hicham Yezza, the University of Nottingham employee arrested and held under the Terrorism Act
Tom Griffin (London, OK): 'When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions', said Shakespeare, and his dictum seems to be holding true for the Scottish
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Compass have just issued a Neal Lawson inspired statement on the Glasgow East result with some ideas about what a Labour government they approve of would
Rosemary Bechler (London, openDemocracy): responds to Anthony Barnett's coverage of the campaign against 42 days:
Thanks for the cogent reading of this important moment in the decline of
Thank you - all the MigrantVoice authors and bloggers for writing at short notice with passion and point. In a week we have moved beyond the shy introductions stage to
[quote=Erik van Zuylen]Euro 2008 has been quite a spectacle so far. Especially the teams of Spain, Russia, Turkey and the Netherlands have shown why football can be a
Sonja Linden started out writing 'verbatim plays' and I like many others can testify to the 'palpable effect' these first hand accounts of detention and forced
