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Matthew Reed
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Naomi Westland
:Why Spain Must Investigate Franco-Era Crimes
Peter Little
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Gabriel Byng
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The victory of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in Egypt's presidential elections, and the strong showing of fundamentalist Salafis in legislative elections, completes a wave of Islamist electoral success that began in Tunisia and has swept the Arab world. One day soon, Islamist regimes may hold sway in an unbroken arc from Morocco to Turkey. Continue reading...
It would be disastrous if the government, by introducing plain-packaging legislation, removes the simplest mechanism for the ordinary consumer to tell whether their cigarettes are counterfeit or not. Continue reading...
An out of control dog can have potentially fatal consequences, so dog aggression is a serious issue that nobody can ignore. But what is really causing this problem and, perhaps more importantly, what can be done to solve the issue? Continue reading...
Crime is not a given amongst young people. Most young people will move through adolescence and into adulthood with at the most a few minor infractions under their belts. Crime involvement peaks in mid adolescence, and then decreases and ceases for the vast majority of those involved. Continue reading...
Labour steered our economy on unsustainable growth and straight into the biggest economic bust in living memory. Despite Labour's protests to the contrary, their staggering deficit was not the product of a mythical global economic crisis. Continue reading...
As the Iraqi government was tightening the screws on the 3,400 Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf, the UN (with U.S. help) brokered a deal to move them to an abandoned U.S. Army base near Baghdad, where they would be processed as refugees for transfer to third countries. Continue reading...
Like most of the compartments of life, politics has its own golden age against which its modern facsimile suffers by comparison. Continue reading...
