Beneath the appeal: modestly saving lives,
“Along the ancient paths winding up and down the dramatic escarpments we found ourselves briefly intertwined in lives that appear to have changed little over hundreds of years. France: identity in question,
It’s a familiar story. Every time France is in trouble, and when its politicians are in need of public support, they reach for a supposedly unfailing remedy: the nation. Voices of a new Iran,
The Iranian protesters are here to stay. On 7 December 2009, tens of thousands of students around the country once again raised their voices against authoritarian rule. Foreign journalists were prohibited from reporting the events, mobile-phone... The psychiatrist as expert witness - between a rock and a hard place,
The problem of mental health expert evidence is becoming increasingly acute in the Russian legal process. It forms the basis for court decisions in grave and dangerous criminal cases, property cases in civil litigation and magistrates’ decisions... Chilean election sees revision of Pinochet legacy,
Early results from yesterday’s elections in Chile have provided a strong indication that the country will be moving to the right for the first time since the days of the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Sebastián Piñera leads the... Blair takes a spin by Copenhagen,
Mr Tony Blair led a high-level session yesterday on forests, which as we all now know provides up to fifth of global opportunities to 2020 for carbon mitigation. Blair is the unquestioned master of messaging, so I sat humbly seeking to read the tea... Reflections on Gordon Brown’s speech to the Institute for Government,
Gordon Brown gave a short and partisan history of pubic service delivery in his recent speech at the Institute for Government. The Institute, by the way, was set up last year with the backing of Lord Sainsbury to improve the process of government.... Ken MacDonald on Blair's deceit and a warning to Chilcot,
Ken MacDonald, the former director of public prosecutions, has penned a devastating article in the Times in response to Tony Blair's admission, in a calculated interview with Fern Britton ahead of his appearance at the Chilcot inquiry, that he... The war dead in the era of liberal interventionism,
"No conscious intention", or 007 types of ambiguity,
In recent years neuroscientists have discovered amazing things about the human brain. Free will and consciousness are, it appears, at least partly illusions. A literary movement in the early twentieth century latched on to something similar with the... |
Monday 14 December 2009
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