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Spinning round the block

Alastair Campbell

Bully boy, Labour attack dog, the second most powerful man in Britain – those days are behind him, Alastair Campbell tells Simon Mundy, along with the mental pressures of a career in the corridors of power. But he's still keeping a close eye on Westminster

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Congo in context »

The fighting that erupted in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in late October 2008 has three major causes: the Rwandan genocide of 1994; the weakness of the Congolese state; and the DRC’s enormous wealth in na...

Tue 16 Dec 2008 by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja | Read more »

Outmanoeuvring the supermarket forces »

Jamie and Valentine are at it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is at it all alone in Dorset. Delia has been at it for years. Seasonable, locally produced, quality food is very much in fashion right now. The backlash against the supermarkets is on. Edinburg...

Wed 26 Nov 2008 by Jack Serle | Read more »

The Gitmo redemption »

James Yee

To tread among the “worst” of us can bring out the worst in us. Or so learnt James Yusuf Yee when he saw a cell door at Guantanamo Bay detention centre suddenly creak open some 20 yards away during one of his daily rounds at a prison block...

Tue 25 Nov 2008 by Nazry Bahrawi | Read more »

Africa's unfolding tragedy »

Congo children

General Laurent Nkunda staged a rally on Saturday in the town of Rutshuru, not far from his reported birthplace in eastern Congo. "We've not come here to fight you. Do not be afraid of me," Nkunda told around 3,000 local people, mainly men, sheltering...

Mon 24 Nov 2008 by Tom Turner | Read more »

The world's bloodiest conflict »

peacekeeper Congo

This is not the first time in the Congo’s history that fighting amongst splinter groups has forced millions to flee in search of safety. Such factionalism first occurred when the Congo declared itself independent of Belgium in 1960. Emerging fro...

Mon 24 Nov 2008 by Jeanne Haskin | Read more »

Winter hideaway »

Iglu

The name Iglu, although trendily spelt for effect, suggests ice white, fresh; it invokes the elements and hints at an uncultivated naturalism. Iglu restaurant, tucked away in deepest New Town promotes traditional cooking and specialises in wild or sust...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Jacqui Kavanagh | Read more »

The Diplomat's Wife »

The French experience of the Second Gulf War has not been a particularly edifying one in terms of its public image. While the worst that was said of French efforts to prevent the conflict from come to pas—“cheese eating surrender monkeys&rd...

Fri 21 Nov 2008 by Katia Sand, Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

George W. Bush: A tale of two terms »

George W. Bush: A tale of two terms

George W. Bush will not officially relinquish office until 20 January 2009 when Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America, but on 5 November 2008 his opinion largely ceased to matter. Bush’s main short-term co...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Andrew Wroe and Jon Herbert | Read more »

24-hour Farsi people »

Outside Tehran’s hulking, grey Azadi national football stadium a riot was fermenting. A mob, 70 strong, with whistles, drums and banners, pushed on the crush barriers and screamed slogans in strangulated Farsi. I hadn’t expected my first ta...

Wed 05 Nov 2008 by James Montague | Read more »

YouTube, you choose »

Senator George Allen calls campaign volunteer S.R. Sidarth "macaca"

Something new is happening in American politics. It all began when a Republican senator, George Allan called a man of Indian American descent a macaca monkey. The comment was made in a rally speech during Allan’s 2006 senate bid and the recipie...

Mon 27 Oct 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

Coming home to muse »

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh needs no introduction. He is a familiar name even to those who have never read any of his half-dozen works of fiction or numerous short stories. The startling success of Trainspotting, the 1996 film adaption of Welsh's novel of the same na...

Mon 27 Oct 2008 by Chris McCall | Read more »

Room for Manuva »

Roots Manuva

If a decade as the only hope for UK hip-hop has got to Roots Manuva, he's certainly not letting on. “I'm just like a kid in a sweet shop,” he grins, reclining backstage at the Liquid Room with an adoring redhead and a mountain of Guinness. ...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Securing the future »

"Buses are getting better:" Transport For London use the language of security in their campaigns

We live in security-conscious days. Our political language and culture have become saturated by "security" and the related idea that we are living in an increasingly insecure world. This has generated more than its fair share of absurdities. Take the f...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Mark Neocleous | Read more »

The rise of the majority »

Just when it feels as though the last nail had been hammered into multiculturalism’s coffin, another public figure appears with an anvil. The latest celebrity critic of everyone’s pet ideological hate is Anglican Bishop Michael Nasir-Ali. N...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Pathik Pathak | Read more »

Dawkins' Delusion »

David Robertson

The ordinary man on the street might be forgiven for thinking that he is somewhat of a rarity in modern society. He doesn't hold extreme views on religion or politics; the foreign worlds of Al-Qaeda, Creationism and militant atheism are presented...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Chris Williams | Read more »

Getting under your Skins »

Skins

In a small central London room a fiery debate has just erupted. “I just think it’s not that simple”, says Lucy Kirkwood, 24, “female friendships are more complicated than that”. The rest of the group she is sat within sits...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Miles Johnson | Read more »

All manner of mayhem »

Buster Bloodvessel

Buster Bloodvessel was in a fix. His 30 stone of pure energy was sailing far over the heads of the conservative Italian audience, who were already looking forward to the arrival of subsonic-voiced crooner Barry White. The gargantuan Bad Manners frontma...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Reflections on the Union »

Early proposals for the Union Flag, circa 1604

Today, the future of the Union is a hot and controversial political topic. A century ago the outlook could not have been more different.On the eve of the Great War, it must have seemed a rock of stability in an uncertain world. It was such a fact of li...

Wed 17 Sep 2008 by Tom Devine | Read more »

Networking your way through the recruitment minefield »

Looking for a job as a recent graduate – a task that a university education does not necessarily prepare you for – can be fairly daunting. Having recently been through the process of deciding where I wanted to work, applying and intervie...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Phaedon Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

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