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An unknown number of people "may have died" from oil slops dumped around Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in August 2006, according to a leader in last Thursday's Guardian.

I've been enjoying a new book by Jonathan Kampfner called Freedom for Sale. Its about the various democratic or sovereign autocracies and how they seem to be exerting a magnetic attraction on

Ben Bradshaw is not a politician to whom I naturally warm. However. Maybe because he once worked for the BBC, he seems to have a knack for highlighting the problems of the

Control orders are to linger on, the Home Secretary announced today. He was responding to a decision by the law lords in June that suspected terrorists who are the subject of "gag

I've been admiring a biography of Arthur Harris by Henry Probart, one of several books I realised I should have read after finishing my latest book Moral Combat.

I quite like the new UK Supreme Court website. But you would have thought it could have got its own name right.

The Muslim World News (MWN) has provided a translation of a report by NowLebanon which covers a high level meeting in Beirut between between members of Hamas, Hizbullah, Hizb ut-Tahrir and the

Times are tough in Afghanistan right now. British forces have long been under attack in Helmand where scores of troops have been lost to the Taliban.

Reports that I have been eaten alive by a Monshta in Berlin have been greatly exaggerated. The tale of my little visit to the Brandenburg Gate is ready and written, but I

"Inverted mordents at dawn?" tweets my mate Sebastian Scotney over at the London Jazz blog, drawing our attention to a somewhat unseemly spat surrounding some fine Bach pianists over whom a couple