No Woman’s Land: On the frontlines with female reporters
George Readings reports on No Woman’s Land, a book documenting the experiences of female journalists; it was launched today to mark International Women’s Day.
Brexit & Foreign Policy
We mustn’t let piracy rule the development agenda on Somalia
Though piracy, security and terror topped the agenda at the conference on Somalia, we mustn’t let it’s less high-profile development needs slip under the radar.
The Treasury dodges the question on its new tax loophole for multinationals
Tax changes being brought forward in the Budget could result in tax losses of £4 billion a year for poor countries and £1 billion for the UK.
Super Tuesday continues Republican death spiral towards November presidential elections
It is all but certain that the frontrunner Mitt Romney will be the eventual nominee, but the party’s voters simply haven’t warmed to him: Too elitist for working-class voters, too moderate for conservatives, too Mormon for evangelical protestants.
The Osborne tax get-out turns aid for the poorest into a subsidy for multinationals
Last year, the UK donated £4.2bn to poor countries. Now Osborne is considering changes that will allow multinationals to avoid paying £4bn to poor countries.
Lessons from North Korea: There is a safer way to engage Iran
CND’s Kate Hudson assesses the lessons we can learn from North Korea engagement with the West after the accession of Kim Jong-un.
The World Outside Westminster – Romney marches on towards Super Tuesday reckoning
Tom Rouse presents our round-up of news from around the world, including the latest on the 2012 US Presidential election campaign.
If you’re online, you’re in America, as far as US cops are concerned
Alex Hern reports on the uncomfortable fact that US law now seems to apply to everywhere online, no matter where you actually are
Why haven’t we intervened in Syria? Is Iraq to blame? Is Libya?
Ben Mitchell argues that the examples of Iraq and Libya are scaring western governments from intervening in Syria – and maybe that’s a good thing, he says.
The World Outside Westminster: One less veteran on the frontline
Chris Tarquini presents the news from the rest of the world this week.