Islamic State: Losing Losers
By Tim Marshall On the plus side – they’re a bunch of losers who are going to lose. On the negative side – it’ll take…
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Paris, 2015: One of the World’s dark places
David Waywell responds to Hamish De Bretton Gordon’s article from Tuesday arguing for air strikes in response to the Paris atrocity. Will the world ever…
Sorry Dave, your podium just sent out the wrong message
It might be mild for November but there’s still enough chill in the air to make me pause and wonder why David Cameron gave the…
News as Clickbait
If it is sometimes hard not to be jaded by the news, it is even harder not to be jaded by the reporting of the…
Burma’s Democracy Deficit
By Nyan Naing Oo. The election in Burma/Myanmar this weekend has once again focussed international attention on the Southeast Asian nation. Much of it will…
Palin Parrots the New Closed Mind
Perhaps you’ve seen Ted Richards in the news recently? He’s the guy who had his ears surgically removed in order to look like a parrot (link…
Putin -The Man With A Plan
I see Putin is one step ahead again on Syria. At least one step. Maybe four. So, Moscow puts it about that Assad is willing…
The UN at 70: The Case For/The Case Against
By Tim Marshall. The United Nations makes itself easy to criticize. After all, it is the sum total of its parts and its parts are…
UK Foreign Office on the Iran Nuke Deal
From today the deal between Iran and the P5+1 on its nuclear programme is ‘Adopted’. So now it must be implemented, some US officials are…
Greens Hug Hamas (and the fringes of politics)
By Stephen Daisley from an article orginally at STV – http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/1330489-stephen-daisley-on-the-scottish-greens-israel-and-palestine-motion/ The Scottish Greens, perhaps feeling Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was lonely out on his…