By Mohammad Zaheer I had just begun my O levels when the first bombs dropped on Iraq- the opening salvo of a brutal and unnecessary military campaign that would forever change the world we live in, and not for the better. News coverage and water cooler conversation mainly focused on ...
By Anicée Van Engeland, Senior Lecturer, Center for International Security & Resilience When he came to address the public at Chatham House in February 2018, HE Abbas Araghchi, the Deputy for Political Affairs of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who served as chief nuclear negotiator, was quite clear about ...
By Annicée van Engeland, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Centre for International Security & Resilience, Cranfield University There was a murmur of agreement around the room when a Ministry of Defence expert, who’d come in to the University to discuss the UK’s counter-terrorism planning, outlined the basic challenge involved: “we ...
A summer-long heatwave killed so many marine plants it released the equivalent greenhouse gasses produced by an astonishing 1.6 MILLION cars. A study shows the "unprecedented" heatwave raised sea temperatures 2 to 4 degrees Celsius above average for more than two months, which proved fatal for more than 1,100 square ...
A Tory three-line whip instructed Conservative MPs to ensure we will not be finding out who funnelled £435,000 to the leave campaign in the last few weeks of the Brexit campaign. Whoever it was chose to do it through the DUP party in Northern Ireland to keep their identity secret ...
Umar Haque, 25, was convicted of plotting a terror attack
In the fourth in a series of trials at Stratford Magistrates Court involving demonstrations against the DSEI arms fair in London last year, the judge has thrown out the charges, describing the protestors’ actions as ‘reasonable’. In a boost to the right to peaceful protest against the arms fair, District ...
As my regular readers will know – are there any of you out there? – my father died late last year. I wrote about it here briefly, reflecting on his absence. That was in the very early days after his death, and I was still adjusting to the new normal. ...
After five long months, my friend, fellow broadcaster and activist, Hisham Al-Omeisy was finally released by his Houthi captors on Sunday 14 January 2018. Nothing can explain the emotion this image of Hisham, now a free man, with his sons evokes in those of us who have campaigned for his freedom ...