As the eldest child of someone born an Argentinian, but who has themselves neither clapped eyes on the place nor made any but the most cursory efforts to learn Spanish, I feel that it's my duty to wade into the fray on the English-speaking side of this debate. I'm sure...

While Julian Assange's interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1) was hardly the provoking event I'd been merrily anticipating, it seems, nonetheless, to have caused a storm in a teacup for the world's leading authorities on investigative journalism.

Journalists from both The Guardian and Der Spiegel - erstwhile Wikileaks...

Since people have started mailing me comments about these blogs, this particular stream of thought will now basically meander along the comments I'm receiving.

I should probably stress again at this point, that I am not in favour of handing out pitchforks to a thronging mob tomorrow, merely that...

As the proposed referendum on a Greek bail-out goes out the window, I think it is time to reflect on this truly tragic moment, in which the people of a nation that invented democracy are not even given the theroetical chance to vote on a measure that will affect their...

Much has been said about whether "Occupy Wall Street" will finally be the spark that brings the impetus for economic and social reform. I believe that it will, for one simple reason: had the super-wealthy stuck to the social contract and let highly-skilled and intelligent people rise up in...

As the showdown at UN Headquarters continues this week with Abbas's bid to have a Palestinian State within its 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital admitted to the United Nations, the idea has been circulating that such a move is "futile" as it "would change nothing...

Now that open conflict is more or less a matter of mopping up, the focus in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya will now turn to elections, just as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan in years past. As a civilization we are fixated on elections and they (their freedom, their...

This is really quite simple, and incidentally applies to every other nation in the Middle East, and indeed, the world (that's right - I'm not one for the small issues). The reason no one in Libya will be getting democracy any time soon is that even most people in Western...