When you think about nuclear weapons, what is the first thought that comes to your mind? Destructiveness? Maybe, death? For me at least, power, danger, and control are probably the first three words I associate with nuclear w...
In the waning days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his strategists to develop a plan for a surprise attack against USSR forces in occupied Germany. Appropriately named “Operation Unthinkable...
The rank hypocrisy with which members of the Conservative party are standing up to praise Nelson Mandela is something that only those with a non-functioning manure detector can accept without feeling a degree of outrage. As Cam...
A Young Nation South Sudan became an independent nation in 2011. The new-found independence brought with it the hope of a fresh beginning. At least hope in the sense that things would get better and not worse. Yet hope, for a...
As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerous...
A short time ago, I read an article online that was introducing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It was written in an optimistic and serene style, describing all the advantages, like job creation, increase in...
The news broke earlier this week that the Home Office backed, inevitably, by Teresa May, plans to “find a way of overturning international human rights conventions”, and seize the power to confiscate the passports of susp...
In an expletive-spattered, 4,500 word opus as guest editor for the New Statesman, and a clash with Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight, British comedian Russell Brand declared the political system irreparably broken, and in the ...
On Saturday November 16th former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi relaunched Forza Italia (Come on Italy), the centre-right party that brought him to power in 1994. The announcement was made during a national convention...