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Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…

David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…

Violence never solves anything, that’s what I say, but I am finding it hard to object to the current international attack on Colonel Gaddhafi’s praetorian mob. Gaddhafi is what we…

Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…

Quoting from the Grauniad: Barack Obama pledged US assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. What on earth is a potentially catastrophic disaster? What does this language mean?…

An Israeli government inquiry into it’s own behaviour has concluded that it did nothing wrong in killing nine peace protesters in the commando raid on a peace flotilla last year.…

Fishermen in Taiji, Japan, who kill dolphins for a living, are worried that a documentary film about killing dolphins might give the impression that they kill dolphins for a living.…

I have a plastic straw here with the words “Long straw for drinking” printed on its packaging. I was unaware you could drink straws. If I look around, I wonder…

A painting of a dead woman wins the BP Portrait Award, 2010 … surely the winning image in a BP show should be of dead pelicans and fish and dolphins…

The board of education of Texas (which is in the USA) has adopted a politicised school curriculum on the model of the Soviet Union, communist China, Nazi Germany or North…