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Up in Arms: Iran and the Bomb »

Iran nuclear 3 (03/10)

We are all, by now, familiar with the narrative regarding Iran and its nuclear programme. Iran is a theocracy that believes Israel should be wiped off the map. It is the chief global sponsor of terrorism through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Equa...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Dan Kenealy | Read more »

Who here is in charge? »

Who here is in charge

Reform Scotland believes that the increased use of quasi-governmental bodies has eroded democracy with too much political power exercised by quangos operating in a "no man’s land", where they are neither fully democratically accountable nor fully...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Alison Payne | Read more »

Unpacking books from boxes »

Main library 2 (03/10)

We hear it all the time, and have done so since the invention of the internet: the book is doomed, technology will make it redundant. We have, of course, heard this for quite a while. The internet came into being in 1991 and is, therefore, approaching ...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Dr Harry Schnitker | Read more »

The Pot Calling the Kettle Brown »

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Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Iraq: Changing Skins »

Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana says little as I apologise profusely for dragging her out of bed into the wind and snow of a typical Edinburgh winter’s morning. It is unsurprising. Zangana, an Iraqi author, journalist and political activist, was tortured and impri...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by James Fidler | Read more »

Journalism's sacrilege »

Journalism's sacrilege

Every so often there comes a time as a disenchanted Catholic where I feel a sense of attachment to my faith, a pride perhaps. This week it came briefly when I read that a 20th century Spanish journalist, Manuel Lozano Garrido, was to be recognised by t...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Get the kettle on »

Get the kettle on

It is a longstanding stereotype of the British national character that its people are wilfully restrained by a good-natured apathy; shrugging shoulders, cynical smirks, and the iconic remedial cup of tea all suggest an attitude of "why bother?" This fo...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Good fences make good neighbours »

Good Fences make Good Neighbors

William S. Burroughs, doyen of the beat poets, once said that “in the magical universe, there are no coincidences”. What to make, then, of the improbable confluence of news that the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the University of Edinb...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 | Read more »

Obama learns the three T's the hard way »

Prof. Zhiqun Zhu

Relations between China and the United States deteriorated following the recent US sale of $6.4 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan. China cut off military exchanges with the US and threatened, for the first time, to sanction American companies involve...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Zhiqun Zhu | Read more »

Four days that defined Iraq »

Tim Pritchard

The Chilcot Inquiry shows a panel of experts examining how the decisions to go to war in Iraq were made, how justified those decisions were, and how effectively the post invasion and reconstruction plans were carried out. The aim will be to learn lesso...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Tim Pritchard | Read more »

A military parade for American cultural power »

Grammy awards

We live in awards obsessed times. On 16 February, the BRIT Awards in London honoured home-based acts, as the great and the not-always-so-good gathered to praise a galaxy of UK pop stars. But the BRITs bash is just a baby sister to the Grammys which la...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Simon Warner | Read more »

Northern Ireland does a deal—on new deadlines »

Northern Ireland police

At the end of last week, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) finally decided to accept the terms of the agreement reached at Hillsborough Castle over ten days of negotiations with Sinn Fein and other parties. So does that put devolved power-sharing g...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Alan Trench | Read more »

Guilt-free gastronomy »

The pleasure of good eating is not something about which I have ever felt guilty. Temporally, between when the food-laden plate is brought and when it is carried away bereft of its goods there is little space for shame or guilt. Each dripping sliver of...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Ben Kendall | Read more »

Let's Smurf under that racial stereotype »

Avatar

Yes, to all you Avatards and CGI-hounds, Avatar might very well be deserving of the Academy Award for Visual Effects: many congrats to the Weta Digital techies sitting at their computers in New Zealand. As for Best Picture and Best Director, let all th...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Iman Qureshi | Read more »

Haiti: Aftershocks »

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"Immediately after the shaking stopped, it was deathly silent. You couldn’t hear anything. Then, about three or four seconds later, the entire city erupted in screams. It was something I’ll never forget," says Jordan Wiley of Médicin...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Médecins Sans Frontières | Read more »

Britain takes a bite of the poison Apple »

Ben Hughes

The Apple iPad is finally here. Or rather, it isn’t. Given all the attention it has attracted over the past couple of weeks you could be forgiven for thinking this was something you could go out and buy. But no, all those reviews are simply specu...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Ben Hughes | Read more »

Private universities: Time for a rethink? »

The rationale for the establishment of Buckingham university college in 1976 was clearly summarised by Dr D J Paulley. “It is now time to examine”, Paulley claimed, “the possibility of creating at least one university in this country ...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 | Read more »

A Fashion Farewell »

The word tribute is used to describe a gift or statement that demonstrates gratitude, respect or admiration. It is something that we share with those who inspire us most, as a way of giving back to them. It is also what is inciting so many people withi...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Joseph Pielichaty | Read more »

Email from Damascus »

Nestled between the antiques shops selling all manner of Oriental flotsam and jetsam and modern reproductions of Medieval swords between which tourists in their regulation khaki shorts and polo shirts idly flit, and craftsmen’s shops that have pl...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Oliver Martin-Robinson | Read more »

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