Infuriating
The farewell article by Bill Emmott, outgoing editor of the Economist, is the usual mixture of insight and infuriation. You can read it here. The insight lies in his welcome
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A global parliamentary assembly
Professor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so
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Make poverty history
By John Roberts This enlighted slogan has been current for some months, part of the campaign to forgive debts owed to the industrialized world by African and other poor countries.
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Taking Democracy Global: Assessing the Benefits and Challenges of a Global Parliamentary Assembly
By Andrew Strauss We publish below an extract from a new pamphlet published by the One World Trust. Increasingly the world’s diverse political communities – local, provincial and national –
What is the international community?
Federalists are pretty suspicious of the notion of the “international community”. It is generally taken to mean gatherings of countries who get together to enact common policies that might otherwise
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Climate change
The consensus among experts on climate science is that human activities are having an irreversible impact on the atmosphere, which will in turn increase the temperature of the planet. If
Water as a source of peace in the Middle East
By Antonio López Torrero The conflict in the Middle East has proven intractable over the last 50 years. However, it is not the first time that an area of the
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Guantanamo Bay: a hole in the laws of physics
By Richard Laming The detention camp established by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has become notorious around the world. It is used as a prison camp for prisoners captured
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Taking George W Bush seriously
By John Williams A review of: The president of good and evil: taking George W Bush seriously” by Peter Singer (Granta Books, 2004) “Plan of attack” by Bob Woodward (Simon
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Human rights in Guantanamo Bay
This document describes the “legal black hole” created by the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and outlines some political actions that might be taken to address the problem. Nothing
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