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Hero, for now
As writers of pulp fiction used to say when they saved their hero from some implausible but seemingly inescapable peril: "With a single bound, our... -
Not the Noughties
Decades don't usually have the courtesy to begin and end on the right year.[briefbreak] The social and cultural revolution that Western countries think of when... -
Canadas Future Climate
The Copenhagen talks on climate change are going badly, which doubtless pleases the federal government. It thinks a weak agreement or none at all will... -
Real world politics
Copenhagen is turning into exactly the sort of shambles everybody feared it would be.[rssbreak] The only official text still has almost two thousand square brackets... -
Obama: In search of a decent interval?
It can't have taken three months to write the speech that President Barack Obama gave at West Point on Tuesday, but clearly much thought went... -
Cyprus: Its over
The window of opportunity actually slammed shut in 2004, when Greek-Cypriot voters overwhelmingly rejected a United Nations plan to reunite the divided island of Cyprus.... -
Mysterious motives behind Fort Hood massacre
Earlier this year, the Pentagon committed $50 million to a study investigating why the suicide rate in the military is rising: it used to be... -
Last exit from Afghanistan
There must be a better way to rig an election.[rssbreak] First the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for... -
Climate: losing control
My youngest daughter is seventeen, so she will have lived most of her life before the worst of the warming hits. But her later years... -
The Northern Passages
Early next week two German-owned container ships will arrive in Rotterdam from Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, having taken only one month to make... -
Japan: Not an Election, A Revolution
Some years ago, a political science professor at a Japanese university told me that he reckoned you could fit everybody who counted in Japan into... -
Al-Megrahi: Whatever Works
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was an intelligence agent. Since he worked for the Libyan government, he probably did some bad things. But he probably did not... -
“Election” in Afghanistan
"They have the watches, but we have the time," say the Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, and it's perfectly true. The election on 20 August is... -
Paper chase
Can Rupert Murdoch save the newspaper industry by making people pay to read the news online? More importantly, does the newspaper industry as a whole... -
Climate change: Two cheers for two degrees
This is how the human race does business. What the G8 summit in Italy decided to do about climate change last week was much less...
