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December 01, 2023

"Joe Biden is finished" as massacre in Gaza continues

It will be remembered, I hope, as the hug that sank a craven president. It was mid-October. US President Joe Biden made the requisite pilgrimage to Tel Aviv to show that his staunch support for...

It's a hard life at university

Teena Varsani Our time spent at university is often described as the best years of one's life with endless fun and partying. But, all of this is overshadowed by the incredible financial debt incurred as a student.Living as an undergraduate is becoming ...

Obama doesn't really care a toss about Europe

Hadleigh RobertsObamamania will end in disappointment for all. Barack Obama's media portrayal, persona and reception really are too good to be true, and the result will be hubris on his part and disillusionment on ours.While there is a feeling of inevi ...

Whatever happened to all-Black shortlists for political hopefuls?

Kingsley AbramsBlack activists in the Labour Party reacted with astonishment and dismay to the news that the Government had bootled out of including the all-Black shortlist proposal in Cabinet minister Harriet Harman's 2009 Equality Bill.We have long c ...

Musings on Melville, Obama, America and The World

Milverton WallaceI was searching my mind recently for that famous quotation from Melville, the one about America belonging to the whole world. I couldn't find it even in the dusty corners of my memory.But instinct happily took me to a rereading of C.L. ...

If you love news, don't be a journalist

Matt Gardner - Online columnistI realised last night what my job had turned me into. Sat in bed listening to the radio, I heard that Morgan Freeman had been in a car crash, his condition was serious but that he was stable. It was the first piece of news in ...

Dark times for bats

Kirsten Weir  As dusk settles over the forest, the mosquitoes start swarming in force. Scott Darling, a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, unfurls a net across a wide path. Not five minutes later, the first bat of the night lands ...

My tough backstage advice to Barack Obama

Michelle ObamaBarack likes to tell a story about the two of us standing backstage before his now famous speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention.The way he tells it, he was too busy in the days before the convention to feel any pressure - but about an hour ...

'Der Schwarze Kennedy' triumphs in multi-cultural Europe

Thomas L BlairWith Obama in the White House, things will get better for Black people in Britain and Europe, and peace will reign all over the world, London cabbie Felix Ohorodonogu told me as I travelled home. This heartfelt sentiment should not be tossed ...

Mugabe's crimes against fashion

Matt Gardner - Online columnist Is it only me that's wary of people who have Hitler moustaches and wear bright green suits covered with pictures of themselves? To be honest, I don't think even Screaming Lord Sutch, rest his soul, would have stoo ...

How Obama has been 'flip flopping' to the right

GAIL COLLINS - New York TimesWe have to have a talk about Barack Obama.I know, I know. You're upset. You think the guy you fell in love with last spring is spending the summer flip-flopping his way to the right. Drifting to the centre. Going all modera ...

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