The European parliament: what's the point?, Anand Menon
The campaign for the elections to the European parliament, being held across the European Union's twenty-seven member-states on 4-7 June 2009, has made one thing clearer than ever. Insofar as people have any intention of voting at all, most...
Lebanon at the crossroads , Robert G Rabil
Lebanon's parliamentary elections on 7 June 2009 find the country at a point where its (and especially Beirut's) confessional system both tear and temper its complex reality. The campaign has been dominated by the sharp divide between the...
Letter from Lipetsk, Oksana Zagrebnyeva
Hi! I haven't written a letter for ages. You don't need to with mobiles and the internet. I'm more likely to ring my friends or colleagues or exchange short messages with them.
I moved to Lipetsk about a year ago. It's...
Brains and minds: science in the clear, Graeme Mitchison
Jane O'Grady castigates neuroscientists for confusing brains and minds. Undoubtedly she is right to detect slipshod use of language, and she is also right to worry about the unattractive and somewhat sinister rush to commercialise the products...