Why Assad Will Not Lose: The Unspoken Consensus On Syria
Commentary on the situation in Syria generally revolves around a handful of well worn subjects; the regime’s use of chemical weapons, how the West finds the regime abhorrent, the fact that Russia and China are supporting such...
Daily News Roundup – 8 January 2012
Africa Kenya hunts ivory poachers after family of 11 elephants killed Kenya’s Wildfire Service says it is pursuing a gang of poachers suspected of killing an entire family of 11 elephants. The family was gunned down on S...
Athletics’ Quick Fix: How the politics of doping is taking athletics to the brink of ruin
June 2003 As most sport-crazy 9 – 90 year-old boys do, I began reading my copy of the Mail on Sunday from the last page to the first. But on this particular day, my eyes were strangely captivated by the side column rather tha...
WATCH: Introducing the flesh eating “zombie” drug [WARNING: Graphic Footage]
Over the last year, two men in Duncan, Oklahoma have fallen victim to a kind of moonshine heroin called desomorphine, dubbed “krokodil” due to it’s horrific side-effects. It has also spread to other states, including Ariz...
What Can We Learn From The Rochester By-Election?
The leader of UKIP, the UK’s increasingly popular independence party Nigel Farage announced after the Rochester by-election last week that, in the wake of his party’s victory, “all bets were off’ for t...
Why Lupita’s Oscar Win Matters
The various awards won by Twelve Years a Slave are hugely significant, but Kenyan Lupita’s Nyong’o’s win for best supporting female could be particularly paradigm-shifting. In 2002, Halle Berry became the fi...
