Although much has been made of the fact that Osama Bin Laden was not the operations chief of Al Qaeda, the death of...
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Alex Bigham Articles
Labour’s Libya legacy
However, Labour should not be apologetic about its policy toward the Gaddafi regime during our time in government. The...
The Jasmine Revolutions
Every story needs a beginning. The narrative of the current turmoil in the Middle East began when Mohamed Boazizi sat...
Iraq and the politics of normal
Seven years ago this week, armoured columns of coalition forces stormed across the border with Kuwait, routing the...
Is the Foreign Office still a great office of state?
Michael Cockerell's documentary series on the great offices of state examined the history of the Foreign Office in its...
Attacking the hydra heads of terrorism
In the world of media management, Baroness Kinnock's timing couldn't have been less fortunate. To admit, just two...
Measured mediation
It might seem a little premature to judge President Obama as an international statesman just 9 months after his...
It’s understandable that the prime minister was on the back foot on Friday, but we need a better strategy for Afghanistan
I write this having just listened to the prime minister talk about Britain’s strategy for Afghanistan. There...
Iran will eventually mature into a fully fledged political culture, but it may not be soon
Christopher Hitchens at a speech in the Commonwealth Club in California recently observed that the underlining...
A movement for change
The French post-structuralist philosopher, Michel Foucault, had a fascination with Iran. When a million people...
A defeat for extremism in India
So the pundits and the pollsters got it wrong. They predicted the tightest result in the general election for years,...
Building a democratic culture in South Africa
There has been much cynical comment written in the international media in the run up to the general election in South...