Alexei Sayle on what makes us human: We need to realise that the best things...
Continuing our What Makes Us Human series, Alexei Sayle reflects on the time Paul McKenna planted a suicidal post-hypnotic suggestion in his brain, and how our restlessness has been exploited to...
View ArticleIn which a black man hires a member of the KKK as his lawyer
Tabatha Leggett speaks to Willie Brown, of Harrison, Arkansas, who did just that.It’s 2008 and Willie Brown, a retired police officer from California, is moving to Harrison, Arkansas. As he unpacks...
View ArticleNelson Mandela's legacy will be measured in symbolic moments
Massive structural symbolic changes in South African life are Mandela’s legacy, and for too long their importance has faded, but this is a moment to remember the momentous change that opened up the...
View ArticleWhy is Spain experiencing an English language boom?
Twenty-seven per cent of Spain's population is unemployed - over six million people. In a ferociously competitive job market, Spaniards see learning a foreign language as the best way of distinguishing...
View ArticleNelson Mandela’s greatness may be assured – but not his legacy
Mandela, too, fostered crony relationships with wealthy whites from the corporate world, including those who had profited from apartheid.When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer...
View ArticleKevin Rudd: The people’s psychopath
Julia Gillard was ousted, and now Australia has Kevin Rudd again: the party’s answer to hatred of the party.By the time Julia Gillard was addressing staff from the stairs of the Lodge, her official...
View ArticleHow the people of Poland are kept from taking to the streets
While Poland loves to boast about westerners coming to earn money, it is less open about those from the eastern part of the continent. Propaganda serves to justify almost anything.Anyone who wants to...
View ArticleOn a trip to Australia, I discover that a day is a very long time in politics...
Douglas Alexander's Notebook.I arrive Down Under as a guest of the Australian government, but my breakfast appointment on the first morning happens to be with none other than Alastair Campbell. He’s in...
View ArticleWhether we like it or not, the settlers have won. The two-state solution is...
Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, Israel’s the Palestinian “peace process” is dead. There’s no hope of any success for a two-state solution.They can’t say they weren’t warned. In 1987 and 2000,...
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“Las Vegas rules don’t apply in Syria”
Britain is trapped between David Cameron’s commitment to act against Assad and the intransigence of the Tory party. But could a new line from the US and shifting events offer a way forward for our...
View ArticleHaifa al-Mansour: "In Saudi Arabia, any woman voicing her opinion will be...
Haifa al-Mansour, the first woman ever to direct a feature film in Saudi Arabia, talks to Steve Yates about how her film Wadjda came together.“I was in the van with a monitor and a walkie-talkie. So I...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About Zimmerman
In reality, nobody alive but George Zimmerman knows exactly what happened the night that Trayvon Martin was shot. In all the speculation, nobody is talking about the real problem: guns.At Louie's Bar...
View Article“The Syrian revolution is a baby – it needs nourishment”
Ewa Jasiewicz reports on the plight of the relief efforts in Syria.We're in Ma'arrat al Numan, a front-line liberated town in Idlib province, Syria. Once home to 120,000, the population is now between...
View ArticleEgypt’s toxic divisions, the mood in Tahrir Square and what happened after I...
Jeremy Bowen's Notebook.It is always a pleasure to visit Mohamed ElBaradei’s home in Cairo. He is a charming and civilised man, and his elegant house near the pyramids always feels like a place of calm...
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Nothing to see here: Athens is now closed to democracy
There are two kinds of deficit that have taken hold in Greece: the economic one, and the democratic deficit created by government spin and five years of austerity and authoritarianism.The Greek capital...
View ArticleThe shocking case of Marte Dalelv shows why we should be boycotting Dubai
The handling of rape cases is just one reason why we should be using our economic leverage to force Dubai to clean up its act.If there's one positive message to come out of the shocking case of Marte...
View ArticleThe UK's new self-defence law opens the door for a Trayvon Martin case
By placing what is essentially a variant of Florida's "stand your ground" law on the statute book, the coalition has created the potential for greater acts of vigilantism.Tony and Trayvon Martin. Not...
View ArticleAncient ideas of land and faith must underpin a new Middle East peace initiative
Having reported on the conflict for years, James Rodgers explains why energy and ambition alone will not be enough to secure peace.It was a day of extreme heat, and extreme emotion. The prisoners were...
View ArticleWatch: the Daily Show's John Oliver on the royal baby
"I think it was around the time of the 48th cannon blast that you realise 'Oh, now I get it - in response to the royal birth, the news has gone on maternity leave'."John Oliver, standing in for regular...
View ArticleWhy Anthony Weiner is America's Boris Johnson
"Carlos Danger" is the man New Yorkers just can't let go of.New York is in the grip of two things right now. The first is a dripping heatwave; nearly 40 degrees last weekend, humid, a relentless...
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