That the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner currently operates a “kill list” for terrorist suspects will strike many as contradictory in the…
Ian Sinclair
The idea that a generous welfare state reduces people’s work ethic is so ingrained in British political culture it has become axiomatic.…
Born in Buenos Aires in 1931, Adolfo Perez Esquivel played a key role in the non-violent resistance to the South American military…
One hundred years ago, a group of miners from South Wales published a radical economic and political pamphlet which ‘received a blaze…
Are you one of the overwhelming majority of drivers who admits to regularly breaking the speed limit? If so, you probably…
The first lap dancing club in the UK opened in 1995. Since then lap dancing has become part of mainstream culture, with…
Threatening the use of water cannon at the tail end of the riots last summer, Eton-educated David Cameron blamed the disturbances on…
In 2005 Maya Evans was arrested along with fellow peace activist Milan Rai for standing by the Cenotaph and reading aloud the…
Arguably the best-known advocate of nonviolence working today, through books such as 1993’s 'From Dictatorship to Democracy', Gene Sharp has influenced popular…
A common argument in the leadup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein could only be toppled by a…