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‘Muscular Liberalism’      

Jamie Mills O’ Brien analyses the end of multiculturalism in Munich



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The March of the Newspaper Baron

Joseph Potts on whether Rupert Murdoch’s insatiable appetite is a cause for panic


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Libya: International pro-action or reaction?

Louise Hemfrey asks whether international handwringing could lead to intervention


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The Jarawa: An ethnographic time-bomb

Ben Dunant on the threat posed by tourism to an indigenous tribe of the Andaman Islands 


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Auld Lang Syne: The decline of the Scots

Michael Stark looks up from his smoked haddock mornay and pint of heavy, straightening his kilt before bemoaning the cultural vacuum of contemporary Scotland


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In the Crossfire: examining Tuscon
 
Cole Sedgwick considers the effect of heated rhetoric on violent direct action



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Rand Paul: scion of a new dynasty

Bernard Feng on the auspicious rise of Paul the Younger


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Apocalypse now?
 
Camilla Gifford ponders the increasingly volatile natural and political landscape


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We are not amused

Ben Dunant on British republicanism and the future of the monarchy


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A second Nakba?

Michael Stark on the disavowed history of Jewish persecution in Arab lands.


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With the Gurkhas in Afghanistan: an interview with Captain Giles Sugdon


Charlotte Plews interviews Captain Giles Sugdon on his experience of active duty in Afghanistan



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Trouble at Millbank

University should be about work ethic, not social ethics, says Matthew Betts



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The death of censorship

Maryam Ansari Shirazi sizes up what’s at stake in the WikiLeaks Controversy


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Pakistan: b-list disaster celebrity

Farhan Samanani on the failure of will over the Pakistani floods, an ongoing tragedy



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Brain Drain Britannia

Joanna Rayner on whether rising fees will encourage a flight of British intellect.




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Big fish, unsustainable pond?


Catriona MacLeod considers her attitude towards environmentalists – and wonders if she even cares.



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Ghana: frontiers of sexuality


Elizabeth Hewitt reports first-hand on the hurdles faced by Ghana’s gay community.



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The Government was tagged in five photos


Andrew Ratomski asks just how much we should know in the age of Facebook and Wikileaks.


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Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom


Maryam Ansari Shirazi gives you the heads up on Inspire, al-Qaeda’s latest magazine.


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Environmental realities behind the weapons of war


Louise Hemfrey calls attention to the much neglected environmental impact of WMDs.



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Burma: a tryst with democracy?


Bernard Feng throws caution on the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.



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An education in class


Joe Fowles forecasts the demographic havoc to be wreaked by the tuition fee hoist.



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Democracy next time


Nicholas Evans anticipates the false dawn of the upcoming Burmese elections



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Gelek: a Tibetan survivor


From an in-depth interview Ben Dunant recounts the harrowing story of a Tibetan ex political prisoner



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Remember King George?


Elizabeth Hewitt on the swift and stubborn rise of an American Tea Party



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Multiculturalism on the rack


Bernard Feng on whether Europe’s rivers are indeed foaming with blood



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The UN in Haiti: a ploy of the West?


Maryam Ansari Shirazi on the misadventure of United Nations peacekeeping in Haiti



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The Vanishing of Darfur - Part 2



Farhan Samanani on the sleight-of-hand of the Sudanese government.


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The Palestinian Diaspora

Louise Hemfrey on the Palestinian Diaspora in the Middle East and beyond.


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Walking the Line


Louise Hemfrey on pulling teeth for peace in the Middle East.



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The Vanishing of Darfur - Part 1


Farhan Samanani on the international attention deficit on Darfur.


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Bringing back the eighties, one strike at a time


The unions are back, says Joseph Potts. And they’re after your daily commute.


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The Basques who cried ceasefire


Maryam Ansari Shirazi throws scepticism on ETA’s recent farewell to arms.



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Red Statecraft


Nicholas Evans on the puppet-theatre of the North Korean state, and what it obscures.



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The Pragmatic Society

Calum Lindsay on the human deficit of the British welfare debate.



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Ed the Unready?


Jamie Mills O’ Brien forecasts Labour’s future, now in young hands.



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Iran: a second revolution

Bernie Feng on the slow rout of the old guard in the Islamic Republic of Iran.




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Asad: An Afghan Life

A young man from Afghanistan lends The Tribe a first-hand account of a childhood spent in war.



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Tibet: Anatomy of A Lost Cause

Ben Dunant dissects the hopes and contradictions beneath the West's favourite cause.



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Modern Chinese Culture. Or lack thereof.

Bernard Feng on the cultural blackhole of the new Land of Opportunity.



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The Border of Justice: British asylum and its malcontents

Calum Lindsay on an asylum system that spits on Britain's liberal values.




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A New Politics? Obama's chequered reign


Nicholas Evans on Obama and American after the honeymoon.



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Cain and Abel: the Labour leadership contest

Jamie Mills O'Brien on the 'Milibattle' for Labour's future.



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A Very British Coup


How the Conservative led government is exploiting an economic situation caused by unfettered capitalism to impose a fundamental neo-liberal doctrine.



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Clegg Under Fire: dissent amongst the Liberal Democrats ahead of the party conference

Joseph Potts spares a thought for the Liberal Democrats, and encourages them to withstand the left-wing backlash.