TALKING about the September 11 2001 attacks shortly after those fateful events, journalist Robert Fisk noted that, while it was OK to…
Ian Sinclair
The first thought I had when I read the news was there must have been a mistake. Surely this sort of thing…
Positive outcomes can come from the most horrible of circumstances. So while the headline-grabbing murders of five women in Ipswich in 2006…
Since the first detainees were transferred there from Afghanistan on January 11 2002, Guantanamo Bay has become the most notorious prison on…
Dear Sir/Madam I visited the cinema yesterday and before the feature started I watched the current Special K commercial (http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/specialk/ <http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/specialk/> ).…
Every nation tells itself stories to make itself feel better. Canadians seem to be better at this than most, tending to define…
Dear Mr Stephens While visiting New York recently I read your column in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Why Iraqis back…
While there is fervent debate about whether it is useful to compare Iraq today with the earlier American war on Vietnam, one…
Published four years ago, Mark Kurlansky‘s 1968: the year that rocked the world is an engrossing and stimulating general history of a…
"I‘m in pains to say I‘m really not an heroic person", Craig Murray explains as I take a seat in the book-laden…