Thursday, November 16, 2006

A failed state

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At least New Labour is consistent. Its new legislative programme focuses on strengthening the state’s repressive powers and kow-tows to big ...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Art market's winners and losers

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A rush by investors and the super rich to get out of stocks and shares into objects that seem safer investments is undoubtedly a major facto...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

One law for the rich...

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When businesses collapse, the last to lose out are the banks, while the directors usually make sure they are alright too. As for the custome...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Fiddling while the planet burns

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With just a few days to go, the United Nations climate change conference in Nairobi is stalled. As delegates gathered for the second week of...
Friday, November 10, 2006

The state's war of terror

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Is MI5 flying a kite for sweeping changes that would further undermine democratic rights? That’s just one of the conclusions you could draw ...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Collective punishment in Gaza

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Under the Geneva Convention on the rules of war, it is expressly forbidden for armies to impose a collective punishment on people who are no...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Bush's new world disorder

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The outcome of America’s mid-term Congressional elections lends weight to what Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said: you can fool some o...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Financial tsunami beyond regulation

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When the financial regulators start getting concerned about what speculators are up to, it is time to take notice. The Financial Services Au...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Saddam verdict and the rule of law

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The "trial" of Saddam Hussein, with its inevitable verdict, just about sums up the legacy of three years of occupation of the coun...
Friday, November 03, 2006

A sick state of affairs

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A charity for men with prostate cancer says many face a "titanic" struggle to be prescribed an approved drug. Taxotere can improve...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

They know all about us

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You thought states that spied on everything its citizens did only existed in Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War. Think again. T...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Britain’s housing crisis: the facts tell the story

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The news that Abbey, Britain's second largest home loan provider, is offering borrowers five times their salary, instead of the usual th...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Action plan for climate chaos

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Although the Stern report on climate change is primarily concerned with measures that could avoid a catastrophic meltdown of the global capi...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

The Stern report - waving while drowning

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According to Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist at the World Bank, climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging marke...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

How not to revive local democracy

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New Labour’s cosmetic proposals about "rebalancing" power in favour of councils and their citizens simply ignore the fact that loc...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Even a sense of identity has its price

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Cutting off your nose to spite your face could be one way of describing Bury Council’s decision to auction off its painting, The Riverbank ,...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Danger: cornered fantasists at work

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The crisis facing Britain and the US over Iraq is not just about how to withdraw troops without admitting defeat and losing face. It is also...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

A caring Britain?

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Paul McCartney. Heather Mills-McCartney. "Oh, I wonder what will happen between them today?" The situation in Iraq has worsened to...

The criminal youth 'justice' system

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One way to judge a country’s culture, it is said, is by the state of its penal system. On that basis, Britain comes somewhere near the botto...
Monday, October 23, 2006

50th anniversary of a people's uprising

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When students gathered on a crisp, bright autumn morning in Budapest exactly half a century ago today, for a march in support of a 16-point ...