2012(209)
  • Dec 20 2012
  • 5:57pm
The end (of 2012) is nigh
Today is my last day in the office for the year, and tomorrow could be my last d...
  • Dec 19 2012
  • 5:21pm
Don't tipple and tweet. Or criticise the King of Bahrain ....
“Don’t drink and dial” was the famous advice from the 2004 fil...
  • Dec 17 2012
  • 7:00pm
Here we Coe again
Everybody’s talking about it – Wiggins pipped the competition to the...
  • Dec 14 2012
  • 6:13pm
Britain's ‘big tent/secret justice’ politics
“I went through a secret trial once before, in Gaddafi’s Libya. In m...
  • Dec 13 2012
  • 2:17pm
Trapped between militants and the military
Between a rock and a hard place. That’s one way of describing life for peo...
  • Dec 12 2012
  • 3:35pm
Mayfair may trump Banana Island. But how does Old Kent Road compare to Makoko?
Last night I checked my calendar and discovered that there are literally two wee...
  • Dec 11 2012
  • 5:24pm
Afghanistan: where violence against women is not inevitable
The endless cycle of apparently targeted killings in Afghanistan is …. ut...
  • Dec 10 2012
  • 12:14pm
Net closing in on Shell
It has been a long time coming, but today it looks like the day of reckoning is ...
  • Dec 4 2012
  • 2:11pm
Look away now – Yemen’s Ansar al-Shari’a are in town
It could be I’m getting squeamish in my old age. I don't know.
  • Dec 3 2012
  • 6:33pm
Jingping’s choice
Chen Guangcheng has posted a video online saying that the new head of China&rsqu...

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