Syria: Politicians should act as leaders, not try to be lawyers
If military action against Assad is morally justified then that surely must be the case regardless of whether or not it is ‘legal’.
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Open Letter to Owen Jones: On Syria, the left should be more critical of the Bennite Legacy
It is due in part to the Bennite legacy that large parts of the left are failing to see clearly on Syria.
Syria: How many more children must end up in body bags before the West acts?
As the drumbeat of military action in Syria grows ever louder, Christians in the country now find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
It is tragic that only reports of chemical attacks return international attention to Syria
Reports of chemical attacks in Syria has returned international attention to the ongoing crisis, but there is disagreement over the right international response.
Nick Griffin: Money from Assad ‘won’t show up until this year’s accounts are published’
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party (BNP), has been talking and writing about Syria an awful lot of late. But he’s been talking and writing about Syria an awful lot more since he returned from a visit to the country last month.
Bring on the oranges – what is there to play for in the second half of the UK’s G8 Presidency?
After the photo opportunities, early morning swims and talk of famous blues musicians last week in Lough Erne, the temptation is to think it’s all over for the UK’s Presidency of the G8.
Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hangover?
Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hang-over? Maybe it’s just me? Maybe I drank too much of the Kool-aid but weren’t we expecting a bit better than this?
Three left wing arguments against intervention in Syria, and why they are wrong
Understandably reluctant to get entangled in foreign adventures after the war in Iraq, Barack Obama’s administration has been so keen to make a break with the past that it has failed over Syria to recognise that inaction often has deadlier consequences than action.
If Miliband continues to dither on Syria, he may go down in history as Labour’s John Major
According to the dictum attributed to Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Yet evil will triumph even more easily if good men help the evil-doers. In the Syrian civil war, with more than 80,000 dead and no end in sight, that is what the European Union has been doing, by upholding an arms embargo on the supply of weapons to all sides.
Torture evidence found in Syrian government prisons
Torture devices and evidence of abuse have been found in government-controlled prisons in the city of Raqqa, the first city to come under the control of the opposition, a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims.