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Australia’s election: ends and beginnings, Peter Browne A few days before the Australian election on 21 August 2010 I had a call from Alyssa McDonald, who was in Sydney writing a piece for the London-based New Statesman. She’d been talking to someone in the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party... Read more » Days of rage: the Tea Party & America's right, Max Blumenthal "He will tell you that he wants a strong authority to take from him the crushing responsibility of thinking for himself. Since the Republic is weak, he is led to break the law out of love for obedience. But is it really strong authority that he... Read more » The fiction of climate change, Andrew Dobson The renowned English novelist Ian McEwan expressed surprise at a literary festival at the paucity of climate-change novels. The point is reinforced by McEwan’s own latest novel, Solar, whose action unfolds against the constant hum of a warming... Read more » Nicolas Sarkozy: a one-trick pony?, Mathew Moran Since 2002 and his appointment as interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy has unashamedly used the theme of security to fuel his political career. Indeed, the issue of security has emerged as a characterizing element of Sarkozy’s political trajectory,... Read more » More Recent Articles Subaltern voices The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo, Martin Shaw Iran: surface truths, inner lives, R Tousi Britain’s security future, Paul Rogers The white and pleasant land, Delwar Hussain Tricky business in Abkhazia, Anton Katin