Aid agencies and NGOs are responding to the devastating earthquake in Haiti with an emergency appeal and are now...
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The London conference on Afghanistan
At the London conference on Afghanistan yesterday Gordon Brown and Hamid Karzai presented the way forward for...
Primaries: getting to the change we need
The American political system, with its heady mix of money, personality and glamour was never more alluring than...
To protect and serve
One year ago the world witnessed an amazing event: the election of the first black president in US history. The...
Midst of a maelstrom
On this anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election observers around the world will feel compelled to use this...
Poetic justice
Politics has a habit of throwing up aphorisms that aren't actually true. ‘All politics is local.' Apart from when it's...
Beacon of hope
One year on, Barack Obama's election victory still feels like a momentous achievement. Yet it is dwarfed by what he is...
Politics of organisation
There has been much discussion about Obama's campaign over the last 12 months. Progress should be congratulated for...
A step too far?
One of the great achievements of the Labour government over the last decade has been the extension of childcare and...
Nutt allergy
I am not as alarmed as some commentators about the current row over the government's drugs policy. Alan Johnson was...
Remutualise the Rock
This week the chancellor will announce his next move in deciding the future of the banks the government wisely bailed...
Tripping over Nutt
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was set up under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) in 1971 on a premise...