Born in north London in 1934, British singer-songwriter Leon Rosselson recently celebrated the 50th year of his performing career. From his left-wing…
Focussing on the 1919 General Strike in Seattle – the first in the United States – Revolution in Seattle is a dense,…
The United States has the dubious distinction of imprisoning the largest number of people of any country. With just five percent of…
According to a 2008 Ipsos MORI the vast majority of the country believe we are in the grip of a teen pregnancy…
With insurgent attacks on NATO forces reaching an all-time high of 40 per day in March, and the violence set to increase…
The US feminist poet Katha Pollitt once warned “When left, right and centre agree, watch out. They probably don’t know what they’re…
With the prison population in England and Wales reaching a record 85,706 earlier this month, and showing no sign of slowing in…
In September 2009 the United Nations released the findings of the Goldstone Report concerning Israel’s attack on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009,…
According to an ongoing research project at the University of the West of England analysing the BBC’s coverage of Venezuela between 1998…
There has been a lot of debate surrounding the results of ABC News’s recent poll in Afghanistan – http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2010/01/polling-in-afghanistan-an-antidote-to-anecdote.html. I recently interviewed…
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