September 2009- Page 3

An unknown number of people "may have died" from oil slops dumped around Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in August 2006, according to a leader in last Thursday's Guardian.

I've been enjoying a new book by Jonathan Kampfner called Freedom for Sale. Its about the various democratic or sovereign autocracies and how they seem to be exerting a magnetic attraction on

Ben Bradshaw is not a politician to whom I naturally warm. However. Maybe because he once worked for the BBC, he seems to have a knack for highlighting the problems of the

Control orders are to linger on, the Home Secretary announced today. He was responding to a decision by the law lords in June that suspected terrorists who are the subject of "gag

I've been admiring a biography of Arthur Harris by Henry Probart, one of several books I realised I should have read after finishing my latest book Moral Combat.

I quite like the new UK Supreme Court website. But you would have thought it could have got its own name right.

The Muslim World News (MWN) has provided a translation of a report by NowLebanon which covers a high level meeting in Beirut between between members of Hamas, Hizbullah, Hizb ut-Tahrir and the

Times are tough in Afghanistan right now. British forces have long been under attack in Helmand where scores of troops have been lost to the Taliban.