(c) flikr
This spring, the British media was briefly gripped by stories of East African piracy – now everybody knows that Somali buccaneers terrorise hapless ships in the Gulf of Aden. It is less widely-known, however, …

You may be forgiven for not having noticed it but an international crisis is growing between Morocco and Algeria which threatens to escalate into full-blown war. The source of the dispute is, oddly enough, one …

(c) Fiona Dalwood
As an old man’s life ends, Gordon Brown wrings his hands (or his publicist’s neck), journalists dig up oil-trade agreements, numerous Americans ball their fists and the amount of egg on Britain’s political …

(c) boliston
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797-8]

The great thing about what seems like half the country …

(c) IRobbo
The Anglo-American ‘petroconomy’ is renowned for its heinous conscience or lack of but in Paris a sly megalith has continued to confound international morals and now threatens a EU policy schism.
EU leaders have been …