The greatest enemy of freedom, we now are learning, is not international terror but fear of international terror. In the name of security, democracies, not least the United States, have curtailed the
Unlike his dad, whose apparent befuddlement over a supermarket checkout scanner helped lose him the presidency, George W. Bush is one tech-savvy guy. He told CNBC this week that he sometimes goes “on
“It is not that we wear the burqa (veil) because it is shameful to go without it, but because it is beautiful to go with it.” This is a quote of an Arab Bedouin woman from Oman in the book entitled
FM must be music to Pranab Mukherjee’s ears. Defense is a curious ministry in Delhi, demanding responsibility without power. One former prime minister, whose experience taught him the value of subservience,
It has been a week when Iraq has moved right up the media agenda. For example, John Humphreys, the Radio 4 Today presenter, has been in Basra giving vivid verbal pictures from that troubled city, and
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians? We know that the Israelis used
