March 2008(13)
  • Mar 28 2008
  • 1:02pm
Asylum policy - fit for purpose yet?
The Independent Asylum Commission has published an interim report on whethe...
  • Mar 28 2008
  • 12:39pm
The Orwell Prize for political writing
I have written before about George Orwell and some of his books on this blo...
  • Mar 27 2008
  • 11:30pm
Congo's forgotten war
Channel 4 News this evening had a report from Congo about a war that the w
  • Mar 27 2008
  • 11:09pm
Channel 4 goes undercover in Tibet
Undercover in Tibet is a Channel 4 Dispatches programme shown at 8 pm on Monday ...
  • Mar 26 2008
  • 1:09pm
Democracy in the Himalayan region
Bhutan has had its first ever election.  The royal family in the small Hima...
  • Mar 26 2008
  • 12:51pm
Iraq War five years on
Anniversaries are a time for taking stock.  Five years into the Iraq War th...
  • Mar 25 2008
  • 5:56pm
An insight into the Chinese leadership?
The Tiananmen Papers is a book that claims to reveal some of the policy deb...
  • Mar 24 2008
  • 2:09pm
Tom Lehrer, songwriter and satirist
If you think of protest songs then you may think back to the 1960s.
  • Mar 24 2008
  • 1:53pm
The journey of the Olympic torch
The Olympic torch has been lit in Olympia in Greece and the flame will be carrie...
  • Mar 16 2008
  • 9:49pm
Protests in Tibet
I was listening to BBC World Service during the night when I could not sleep &nd...

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