I paid my electricity bill this week and it was steep man! Like most people, I’ve noticed my meagre wallet wedge shrinking lately even as I go around the flat switching off the lights my (profligate) girlfriend's left on … According to...

I’m going to be upfront in today’s blog – there’s only a tenuous link at best between England’s 3-1 footballing victory over Egypt at Wembley last night and the impending military trial of Egyptian blogger Ahmed Mustafa . In fact it’s...

Speaking on 5 Live this morning – one BBC radio station that’s safe from the axe at the moment – Mike Wooldridge discussed President Jacob Zuma’s “action-packed” state visit to the UK – his first since assuming presidency in South...

The late-breaking news last night that Ejup Ganic , a former Bosnian vice-president, had been arrested at Heathrow was, for my money, heartening. Why? Because we’re supposed to be living in a world that, after Srebrenica, after Kigali...

We have a new campaign briefing out today, urging the authorities in Sudan to abolish the practice of flogging, which is normally used against women. Women in Sudan face a daily risk of being arbitrarily arrested in public or private...

The UK government’s Control Orders regime is being discussed by MPs today, in the annual review/rubber-stamping of this “lamentable system”, as Andy Worthington describes it in his excellent and detailed blog on the subject. Today’s...