2009(241)
  • Dec 24 2009
  • 11:43am
2009: horribilis or mirabilis?
Everyone loves a list. Shortlist and Stylist mazagine’s popularity are tes...
  • Dec 23 2009
  • 2:23pm
A grim advent for Akmal Shaikhs family
With only six days to go until his scheduled execution on 29 December, it’...
  • Dec 21 2009
  • 5:41pm
The Price of Human Rights - Cambodia ignores refugee convention and sends Uighur asylum seekers to uncertain fate in China
Cambodia today deported 22 Uighurs who had fled China to escape persecution, ret...
  • Dec 18 2009
  • 3:33pm
Too late for Tulay
The murder of Tulay Goren by her own father would be shocking wherever it happen...
  • Dec 17 2009
  • 1:34pm
Get me out of here, Im a Saharan activist
Listening on the radio this morning to a Scottish man stranded in Lanzarote airp...
  • Dec 16 2009
  • 5:49pm
An end in sight to UK company abuses overseas?
You could be forgiven for missing news today on a report from Parliament’s...
  • Dec 15 2009
  • 6:14pm
Exposing the truth in Sri Lanka
There was an excellent expose in The Times newspaper today.
  • Dec 14 2009
  • 1:22pm
Was Tony Blair making an ass of himself in Azerbaijan?
As regular readers of this blog may know, I always weigh my words carefully. But...
  • Dec 11 2009
  • 2:47pm
Portishead: I just wanna be a music critic
When I first heard a ghost-voiced Beth Gibbons from Portishead croaking “G...

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