Former Prime Minister Tony Blair released his autobiography, A Journey, earlier this month, amid protests over his alleged accountability for the Iraq War in 2003. Mr Blair’s book signing for the autobiography in Dublin shortly after its release...
Sun 12 Sep 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »
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 »
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 »
“I hear that’s a good read.” Leafing through Alastair Campbell’s debut novel in a Glasgow cafe, it’s only when he taps me on the shoulder that I realise the man at the adjacent table is the author himself. But then, Tony ...
Sat 06 Dec 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »
A fake edition of The New York Times was distributed free to unsuspecting commuters in New York and other major US cities, under a slightly altered version of newspaper's motto – "all the news we hope to print," revised from "all the news that's ...
Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Elise Carter | Read more »
The French experience of the Second Gulf War has not been a particularly edifying one in terms of its public image. While the worst that was said of French efforts to prevent the conflict from coming to pass—“cheese- eating surrender monkey...
Fri 21 Nov 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis, Katia Sand | Read more »
The first act of a Conservative government will be to launch a full inquiry into the war in Iraq, the party's foreign affairs spokesperson has promised.The announcement was made by shadow foreign secretary, William Hague in his speech to the Conservati...
Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Megan Taylor | Read more »
On 2 September 1945, in the calm waters of Tokyo Bay, General Yoshijiro Umezu signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Imperial Army General Headquarters, and insodoing officially brought to a close the Second World War. From Hirosh...
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