Wednesday was a mixed day for George Galloway, the darling of the US anti-neocons for his scoriating testimony in Congress. On the up side the Daily Telegraphy lost an appeal against a decision that they had libelled him by...
Read MoreSeveral developments over the past weeks concerning Russia have had a little impact on the blogsphere but what seems to be going on in Russia has put it and the USA on parallel tracks, heading towards oligarchies where the few...
Read MoreAriel Sharon might seem to be a classic case of a cerebral episode waiting to happen. He was certainly very overweight and 77 years but he had pressures other than just being Prime Minister of Israel, setting up a new party and...
Read MoreThe BBC World Service has commissioned Globescan to do an opinion survey in 27 countries worldwide asking an open ended question “In the future, when historians think about the year 2005, what event of global significance...
Read MoreThere is an interesting survey by BBC Wales reported today about “acts of collective worship”(ACW) in schools in Wales, which also includes information about those in England. Well over half of all secondary (for...
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