Can Big Pharma end the death penalty in the US?
Someone on death row might have an excellent innocence claim or an excellent police corruption claim, but what is saving their life is shortages or litigation over execution drugs. A man walks into a...
View ArticleThe Washington impasse may lead to further Euro strength
In an epic reversal of fortunes, the Eurozone is starting to look like a safe haven to some.It’s been a pretty quiet year in the major currency markets. Euro vs the USD is the most actively traded...
View ArticleAmnesty International: US may be guilty of war crimes in Pakistan
Several reports released this week are adding pressure on the US to disclose information about its deadly drone programme and civilian casualties.A report released by Amnesty International today has...
View ArticleThe Times says Assad's snipers target unborn babies: but is this horrifying...
Experts have raised doubts over a shocking image, used by the Times, purporting to show a foetus which has been shot in the womb. On Saturday, the Times published a deeply disturbing account from a...
View ArticleWhy have 94 per cent of Bangladesh factory collapse victims received no...
Six months on from the disaster that killed over 1,100 workers, Primark is the only brand to have offered victims compensation.According to the UK charity Action Aid, 94 per cent of survivors and...
View ArticleJapan's Thatcher: Meet the man determined to end the "lost decades"
Shinzo Abe’s first, brief premiership ended in disaster. Yet now, recovered from debilitating illness, the conservative nationalist is back in power and, emboldened by “Abenomics”, is determined to...
View ArticleThe controversies of Washington, DC: government shutdown and no more Redskins
There is mounting evidence that the GOP’s hopes of taking the Senate in 2014, which seemed high a few months ago, are diminishing by the day. Arriving in Washington, DC to start a fellowship at the...
View ArticleMeet the most powerful woman in banking
Yellen is a distinguished academic, especially known for her work on unemployment. She has even written about out-of-wedlock child-rearing, gang behaviour and the brain drain; she cares about the real...
View ArticleWill the world's wine supplies run dry?
According to research released this month by Morgan Stanley, global wine production is decreasing, but we’re guzzling more and more of the stuff.It’s a sobering thought. According to research released...
View Article200 teenage girls die in childbirth every day
Globally childbirth is one of the leading causes of death among teenage girls, according to a UN report calling for greater action against adolescent pregnancy.Every day, 20,000 girls below the age of...
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Alec Baldwin: Americans have been lied to
Edward Snowden saw things he thought we, as Americans, should know. He valued the truth and thought you could handle it, says Alec Baldwin.Obviously, we’ve been here before. The United States has been...
View ArticleMyanmar: the new Asian investment frontier
MasterCard and Visa have already entered the country, together with multinationals such as Nestle, CocaCola, Uniliver, Total and Suzuki.When Nobel prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the Italian...
View ArticleEU immigration policy is contributing to Sahara migrant deaths
Between 1998 and 2012, more than 16,000 people are known to have died attempting to migrate to the European Union.The BBC has published the moving account of a 14-year-old girl from Niger who lost her...
View ArticleOn Germany's new intersex law and the dangers of our gender-obsessed culture
Germany has become the first European country to pass a law that lets a birth certificate to be left blank in cases where the child is neither obviously male nor female, but it will take far more than...
View ArticleBarclays vs Dahabshiil: when a Somali money transfer company takes on a...
The Somali money transfer service Dahabshiil has won an injunction against Barclays, which had been threatening to cut off services to the company. Yesterday, the Somali money transfer service...
View ArticleWhy Britain is a world leader in financial secrecy
Between $21-32trn of private wealth is kept in tax havens, and Britain is at the very centre of a global financial system that allows the wealthy to avoid tax.According to the Tax Justice Network,...
View ArticleHow Ted Cruz, the US Tea Party’s Darth Vader, is preparing for a tilt at the...
The end of American empire has presented difficult questions about what might come in its place – even for those who found the George W Bush “freedom agenda” so difficult to stomach.The latest...
View ArticleDid the press comply with an HIV witch-hunt in Greece?
State and private television networks went ahead and published women’s mugshots and personal details, labelling them “HIV-infected prostitutes”.When hundreds of women were rounded up in a police sweep...
View ArticleWho are the new socialist wunderkinds of America?
Every time I’ve come home to the US from my home abroad over the past four years, I notice a trend among people of my demographic: they have become increasingly politicised – and increasingly radical.I...
View ArticleDavid Cameron must act to hold the Sri Lankan government to account for its...
The PM has consistently failed to pressure the Rajapaksa government over its human right abuses. There is too much at stake, for too many, for him to fail to do so yet again.The Commonwealth Heads of...
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