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- Shakespeare, neither simply English nor British, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Willy Maley
- North Korea reveals details of uranium enrichment plant, Rukeyya Khan
- Decapitated dogs and burning bureaus: the year Kazakhstan did democracy, Ryan Gallagher
- Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?, Julia Long
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| Wilders and the Dutch press: scapegoater hunted down as a witch, Tjebbe van Tijen A neo-McCarthyism is flooding the Low Countries these days with the Islamophobe law & order PVV party of Wilders being hunted down by almost the whole spectre of 'respectable' Dutch news media. Five of the 24 PVV members of parliament... 2010 US mid-term elections: the shellacking , Robert L.Borosage 1994 was dubbed the ‘bloodbath.’ Bush called 2006 a “thumpin.” 2010 will clearly be remembered as a ‘shellacking,’ the president’s term for an election rout in which Republicans picked up over 60 seats in the House, a record for... Full reserve banking, Sylvia Rowley From Irish woes to student protests, the grim fallout of the banking crisis has dominated the news once again this month. But behind the scenes a radical solution has also quietly gained ground, with growing support from some unlikely bedfellows. Read more »• Mario Vargas Llosa's journey: power and individualism, Iván Alonso Mario Vargas Llosa began collecting literary prizes in 1959 when Los Jefes (The Leaders), a short story about a student rebellion, was awarded the Leopoldo Alas Prize. In the fifty-odd years since then, he has received many distinctions, including... Shakespeare, neither simply English nor British, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Willy Maley Minds across the globe will automatically couple Shakespeare and England as they will Coca Cola and the USA. Yet it was with Britain that Shakespeare was first joined by another writer. The prefatory poem to the consecrating, expensive edition of... North Korea reveals details of uranium enrichment plant, Rukeyya Khan North Korea revealed details of a new uranium enrichment power plant on Tuesday, in a move that is considered by South Korea as yet another provocation. The revelations come a week after the North fired artillery shells at the disputed South... Decapitated dogs and burning bureaus: the year Kazakhstan did democracy, Ryan Gallagher
When Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policy of Glasnost across all Soviet government institutions in the late 1980s, it marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Empire. What the policy meant was that for the first time, the press would be... Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?, Julia Long On 25 February 2008, Levi Bellfield was convicted in the British courts of the murders of two young women, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and the attempted murder of a third, Kate Sheedy, whom he had run over repeatedly, leaving her with... More Recent Articles
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