Isn’t it great the religiously-driven, militaristic and simplistic George Bush is no longer in the White House? Take the following quotes…
Ian Sinclair
No doubt many people reading this will have had the misfortune of watching BBC News 24 or Sky News as an unexpected or supposedly…
Book review: A Million Bullets. The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan by James Fergusson
A freelance journalist who has been reporting on Afghan affairs for two decades, James Fergusson has written a fast-paced, accessible account of…
Last summer, while sitting in the dark waiting for the new Indiana Jones movie to begin, I was subjected to the new…
On 31 January 2003, Katharine Gun, a 28-year old Mandarin linguist at Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, arrived at work to…
In his 1938 study English Juvenile Courts, Winifred Elkin referred to "the view so often expressed by the writers of letters to…
A humanitarian aid worker who has worked for Amnesty International, the International Rescue Committee and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in…
Exhibition review: Between the covers. Women’s magazines and their readers. Women’s Library, London.
Cosmopolitan, Heat, Take a Break, The Lady, Vogue, Grazia, Bliss, Bella, Zest – visit any newsagents and you will find the shelves…
"Take up yoga, lefties, because you’re gonna need an awful lot of flexibility to perform the contortions necessary to explain and justify…
On 31 January 2003, Katharine Gun, a 28-year old Mandarin translator at Government Communication Headquarters in Cheltenham, arrived at work to find…