Is Iran pre-revolutionary?,
To a Kremlin analyst in 1968 America may have looked similar to the way that Iran looks to some American analysts today. Large-scale demonstrations to protest the Vietnam war and disrupt the Democratic convention in Chicago may have led to some to...
Why do Americans love Sarah Palin? ,
The meteoric ascent of Sarah Palin as a celebrity puzzles many Americans. Why, her detractors ask, did a presidential candidate choose an inexperienced and inarticulate former beauty queen who had governed the state of Alaska for two years as his...
Sri Lanka: what happens next? ,
The news that the Government of Sri Lanka is to close the internment camps where thousands of Tamils were illegally detained, following the end of the country’s civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels six months ago, is testimony to the effect of...
"Death on the Rock": 21 years later and still the official version lives on,
Many of us have recently been re-living a key event of 1989, with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember it clearly, but an event in the previous year, 1988, is etched even more sharply in my mind: the shooting of three IRA...
Alien invasion!,
I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first!
The E.U. as a surveillance society,
For the first time the EU-wide moves towards a surveillance society and a database state are set out in all their appalling glory. A major report has recently been published, NeoConOpticon. It has its own webpage . The authors, with Ban Hayes of
Rwanda’s human rights failings exposed in Commonwealth bid,
A considerable degree of anguish has arisen over the prospect of Rwanda joining the Commonwealth, with human rights groups, NGOs and politicians claiming that the move will damage the union’s reputation for upholding human rights and the rule of...
Demarchy – can the people rule?,
In a small nation on the Western margin of the British Isles, amidst sheep and rocks and old mines, the world’s first popular movement for demarchy is beginning to test its strength.
As the indigenous political establishment manoeuvres to wrest...
The Afghan anvil: breaking the Indo-Pakistani deadlock?,
As the war in Afghanistan takes a turn for the worse, the burden of blame has increasingly come to rest on the state of relations between India and Pakistan and their “rivalry” in Afghanistan. The McChrystal report, the recent bombing at the...
The future of England,
David Wildgoose gave this address to the annual general meeting of the Campaign for an English Parliament, of which he is vice-chairman. Anthony Barnett described David's speech and the meeting's debates over English identity and English...
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