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The power balance is shifting, for better and for worse
Mary Dejevsky: The last word might still rest with the authorities. But the “outlaws” have acquired a certain capacity to wreck. The stakes arenot nearly as unequal as they were.
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A global chance for jobs and justice
Friday, 10 December 2010
Gordon Brown: The world will pay a heavy price for ignoring the sorrows of the left-out millions. It doesn’t have to be this way.
A siege mentality, but they're good at that
Friday, 10 December 2010
Simon Carr: Barriers, crowds, police lines. The House of Commons was cut off from the outside world. No change there then.
Terence Blacker: What if Bilo made a film about us?
Friday, 10 December 2010
Like many successful films, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has inspired a sequel. The more simply named My Brother Borat will shortly be released, and its director, Erkin Rakishev, is to make a promotional visit to Britain this weekend.
Katherine Butler: A show of clemency would suit Tehran's interests
Friday, 10 December 2010
An Iranian man who has grown tired of his wife has options. He can divorce her with impunity, but he doesn't even have to go to that much trouble.
Climate change: the daily reality for farmers
Thursday, 9 December 2010
The UN climate change talks in Cancun are about to conclude. But for millions of people across the world, the awareness of climate change does not rely on the media, or the ebb and flow of global negotiations. It is a terrifying reality. Bringing greater vulnerability to lives already precarious.
Steve Richards: Don't expect protests to achieve much
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Students protest. MPs vote in the House of Commons. The protests are vivid, dramatic and, even in these freezing temperatures, have a whiff of urgent glamour. Parliament is rarely noticed and politics is viewed with disdain.
Wikileaks: Cablegate's misogyny leaked in full
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Joan Smith: Entranced by conspiracy theories, Assange supporters dusted down every trope about feminists, equality and rape.
Andreas Whittam Smith: GPs will have to sprout angel wings to handle this madness
Thursday, 9 December 2010
So the path to enhanced localism goes via the Kremlin. It is a weird way to go.
Adrian Hamilton: We shouldn't give up on the euro just yet
Thursday, 9 December 2010
International Studies: People worry too much about the euro. Not, of course, the commentators and politicians who never believed in it in the first place and are now revelling in its incipient collapse.
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