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| Wednesday 21 October 2009 |
An Afghan farce, produced in the West
For Hamid Karzai to justify the West’s unjustified war, the Afghan presidential elections had to be rigged.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Are we witnessing ‘the rise of the rest’?
The elevation of the G20 over the G8 has prompted talk of an international power shift. The reality is more complicated.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
Seeking domestic legitimacy through foreign affairs
Under the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W Bush and now Barack Obama, America has consistently pursued abroad what it lacks at home – moral authority.
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| Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
The philistines in the ivory tower
The real threat to academic freedom today comes from the collapse of belief in the worth of intellectual enquiry.
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| Monday 9 February 2009 |
The new slave trade?
The term ‘trafficking’ depoliticises the debate about immigration and makes everyone into a pathetic victim.
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| Monday 17 November 2008 |
Now, at last, we know the truth about Georgia
The myth of a plucky republic being ‘ethnically cleansed’ by an evil Russian regime was just that: a myth.
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| Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
Hell hath no fury like a Eurocrat scorned
A leaked briefing reveals why officials think they lost the Irish referendum: because there’s ‘too much’ press freedom.
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| Monday 18 August 2008 |
The myth of a plucky republic
After Georgia: Far from ‘defending democracy’, Saakashvili and his backers have robbed Georgians of any real say over their fate.
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| Thursday 17 July 2008 |
Sudan: an indictment of liberal intervention
Prosecuting President Omar al-Bashir for genocide might make Westerners feel good, but it will only exacerbate the conflict in Darfur.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2008 |
Aboriginal apology: a sorry spectacle
Kevin Rudd’s celebrated utterance of the S-word for past wrongs against aboriginal communities was deeply paternalistic.
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| Thursday 13 December 2007 |
Cranford and the poverty of adaptation
The TV version of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel is enjoyable. But it fails to do justice to the subtle humour and pathos of the book.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2007 |
A tactical re-treaty for Europe's elites
The debate about the Lisbon Treaty - the European Constitution rehashed - reveals how divorced European leaders are from the European masses.
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| Monday 10 September 2007 |
Throwing money at Basra’s problems
Meet the British merchant banker and part-time soldier who was given $1 billion, some odd instructions and an order to reconstruct Basra.
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| Monday 2 July 2007 |
Sudan: a platform for French grandstanding
France's new foreign minister, the arch-interventionist Bernard Kouchner, is using the crisis in Darfur to try to win France some respect in world affairs.
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| Monday 11 June 2007 |
The Milosevic trial: a travesty of justice
A new book shows how the international community undermined every legal principle in its desperate bid to convict the former Yugoslav leader.
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| Wednesday 25 October 2006 |
Benn against the big bad Wolfowitz
Ignore UK development minister Hilary Benn's posturing against the World Bank: both agree that Africa is incapable of self-government.
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| Thursday 24 August 2006 |
Tribe wanted, reality check needed
Tribewanted.com aims to create a new model 'eco-community' on a Fijian island. It's actually just a time-share deal for thirtysomething narcissists.
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| Thursday 11 May 2006 |
The EU and Serbia: treating a state like a naughty child
What gives European officials the right to punish Serbia for failing to arrest former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic?
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| Thursday 20 April 2006 |
Transamerica: dysfunction by numbers
spiked-film: Duncan Tucker’s road movie about a transsexual substitutes revelations of abuse for character or plot development.
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| Tuesday 4 April 2006 |
What ever happened to the Orange Revolution?
Last year we were told that a popular uprising in Ukraine had ousted a fraudulent leader. So why has that fraudulent leader now been voted into power?
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