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Well I’m just days back from New York where I was just yards away from Grand Central Station when a massive steam pipe explosion caused great consternation, forcing hordes of us off the subway and onto the streets of Manhattan. As you...
As the mighty Supremes once sang, you cant hurry love, you just have to wait - but were also apparently going to have to wait generations for gender equality in Britain. As the mighty Supremes once sang, you cant hurry love, you just...
I was surprised over the weekend to hear that President Bush had issued an executive order banning the CIA from using ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’ in US detention facilities. Isn’t that kind of treatment banned already? Our...
The Forbidden Team is being shown at the Ritzy in Brixton at 7 pm on Wednesday 8 August. That date is exactly one year before the Beijing Olympics. The film is about the Tibetan national football team. We are lucky that even if it is...
The news section of this website gives details of 30 people given life sentences in Ethiopia, most if not all of them considered by Amnesty to be prisoners of conscience. Mesfin Woldemariam is one who is named and I seem to remember...