The Development Dilemma
A few days ago The Guardian newspaper reported on an MOD study looking at the strategic situation for Britain’s armed forces 30 years down the line. One of its main assumptions, with good reason, is ...
How The Right (and Roe) Stole Our Values
No issue exposes the deep divisions in the American political landscape like that of abortion. Ever since the handing down of Roe vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court in 1973, enshrining a woman’s right ...
The White Man’s Burden (?)
What do you think of when you think of Africa? Starving little children, rib cages and swollen bellies horrifically prominent in desolate, dusty villages, surrounded by flies? Or maybe corrupt military leaders living on a ...
This House Believes The War on Terror Cannot Be Won
Notes from First Proposition Speaker in KES Debating Society Motion, Oct 2004 Well firstly, I’m here to tell you that the war on terror can’t be won, because it doesn’t exist. What is terror? Can ...
The War on Freedom
Two years on from the atrocities of September 11, and the unveiling of George Bush’s ‘war on terror’, is the World a safer place? The death of 3,000 Americans has resulted in the deaths of ...
Iraq, Terror and The New World Order
The war we will inevitably face in sooner or later against the regime of Saddam Hussein is one of hidden dangers that go much further than the security risks posed by Iraq. The war we ...
Why The War on Terror Cannot Be Won
That’s it then. We’ve got the blessing of the UN, and so we’re going into Iraq to remove a tyrant, free the world of terror, and to bring peace and democracy to those persecuted by ...
