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Jul 23 2008 11:18AM
Missing, presumed alive in Pakistan

I always think those posters of missing dogs or cats on lampposts are unbearably sad. Someone loves those animals. The owners are heartbroken and desperate. They go to the trouble of putting up posters. They offer rewards. And then...

Jul 22 2008 11:35PM
Let's tell Iris Robinson where she can stick it!

That's the rather piquant name of a Facebook group at the heart of a fightback against homophobia in Northern Ireland. The four thousand-strong campaign group on the social networking site is just one element of an online and offline...

Jul 22 2008 10:10PM
Tom Paine and The Rights of Man

It may soon be the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , but December 10th 1948 – albeit a massively significant moment – was not the starting point for human rights. We could have a long argument about...

Jul 22 2008 4:13PM
Karadic Arrested what now?

After more than twelve years on the run, Radovan Karadzic – who stands accused of crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the appalling abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early nineties – has been arrested. The...

Jul 21 2008 1:33PM
FAC me, can we believe a word they say?

I think it would be fair to say that the nation is rarely riveted to the Parliament Channel. Aside from the very punchiest Punch and Judy moments of PMQs, it doesn’t really have too many watercooler moments. Or any. But human rights...