At the end of last year, I was invited to write a guest editorial for the excellent Friends of Lebanon society. F.O.L. is a London based group, without any political or religious affiliation, whose aim is simply to work towards a better and more peaceful Lebanon.

Ahead of a conference in Vienna this week, aimed at hammering out a ban on cluster bombs, the government has once again reneged on its commitment to a ban on these weapons that, in the words of Gordon Brown, “cause unacceptable harm to civilians”.

A few words about the Polish election that took place at the start of last week.

Thousands of Polish and Lithuanian workers are being exploited by their UK employers according to a report published this week by Oxford

As reported by Johann Hari in Saturday’s Independent:

With the deaths of James Callaghan and Edward Heath in 2005, there are currently only three members of the small and exclusive club of former prime ministers – Margaret Thatcher, John Major and, as

A recent article in the Index on Censorship accurately notes: “Last week, the High Court in the UK ove

At the end of last year I attended a public meeting in Oxford (where I live) organized by the NUJ and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Anyone who engaged in the act of masochism that was sitting through Blair’s recent performance on the BBC's Politics Show, where

As a recent Guardian article points out, when it comes to the Shatt al-Arab boundary “there is no universal agreement on exactly where the border line runs”. Every article of academic opinion I have managed to find on the subject backs this up. However, this hasn’t stopped the British government from publishing maps ignoring the long-running boundary dispute and purposefully aggravating diplomatic tensions between Britain and Iran. In fact, given the events of the last few days, one could be forgiven for thinking that all parties involved in the recent furor were trying to provoke a major international conflict.