When a disabled protester was allegedly hauled from his wheelchair during last week's student protests, a BBC interview illustrated long standing problems with the media's treatment of protesters. However, the advent of camera-phones and social media websites mean the truth cannot be concealed for
With the third week of the Cablegate saga looming, only 0.5% of the leaked embassy cables have so far entered the public domain. Following his reflection on the first few days of the crisis sparked by the leaks, Ryan Gallagher says now is the time for the British media to call the political establ
As Cablegate continues to cause an international diplomatic storm, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is now the target of a witch-hunt. But in the Age of the Internet, have the powerful finally met their match?
Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE has not passed without controversy. Reforms promised at the beginning of the year never happened, press harassment continues and things could get worse when Kazakhstan is no longer in the glare of international scrutiny, laments Ryan Gallagher
Ever had a funny feeling that we are not being looked after enough? A story of how distressed people are persuaded to waste their money on private service television
The trial of former Labour immigration minister Phil Woolas exposed the dark underbelly of British politics – but what could the guilty verdict mean for the future of campaigning?
The referendum on electoral reform offers too limited a choice, and an independent body should be responsible for drafting the referendum question, the majority of respondents to a recent YouGov
The British government should introduce fixed term parliaments that would remove the Prime Minister’s power to decide the date of the next election, a report published by the Constitution
Yesterday Guy reported on the first London-wide meeting of campaigners for a "Yes" vote in the AV referendum. But what have the No camp been up to?
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Produce from cloned animals has now entered the British food chain for the first time. This represents the dawning of a hazardous new era of for-profit nihilism and animal eugenics.
With hustings for the Labour Party Leadership well underway, the five candidates have been busy battling to distance themselves from the era of Blair and Brown. But what have they had to say about electoral reform, civil liberties, human rights and Iraq, and how does each of their respective votin
