Sunday sees the 200th anniversary of the British law that abolished the slave trade between Africa and the Americas. That only affected the “middle passage” and slavery itself was not to be abolished in the British...
Read MoreIt’s often said that history is “written by the victors” but the distance of time can reveal a very different story. Another theme is that history repeats itself and perhaps this should be read as a warning of...
Read MoreThe Israeli deputy Prime Minister has given an interview to Al Jazeera in which he gives a narrative about the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon last year. This rather surprising medium for a response to Monday’s US...
Read MoreIn todays London based, “Independent on Sunday” Wesley Clark has written a piece slamming the planning of the Iraq war and the idea of the “surge” of maybe 20,000 (30,000 in some reports) US troops in...
Read MoreI have been gleaning some of the early platform from John Edwards. What has struck me is how similar these initial policy statements are to the work of the 19th century Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli and the...
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