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Saddam Hussein's general tries to prosecute Blair. Media forgets to mention Hussein connection

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat’s attempts at a private prosecution against Tony Blair Lord Goldsmith and Jack Straw over the 2003 invasion of Iraq is in the news again. This is after the Attorney ...

St. Petersburg Investigators Agree to Review Ballot Stuffing Allegations

It doesn't happen often in Russia, but police have agreed to investigate a case of potential voter fraud from last September's elections. Yegor Tratnikov, a candidate who lost his race ...

Easter Message from Sean Spicer - SNL

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) apologizes for his comments about Hitler, dressed as the Easter Bunny - Saturday Night ...

12 Police Forces Pass Election Expenses Files to CPS - The List of MPs

The Tory election expenses scandal rumbles on. After Channel 4 News broke the story, 14 MPs were investigated by police for failing to properly declare their campaign expenses at the 2015 General ...

This Bear Has A Rebuttal To Trump's Hunting Bill

One brown bear steps up to a conveniently located river-lectern to growl about Trump's new bill permitting hunters to target bears during hibernation. - The Late Show with Stephen ...

The Wilders Wilders West

The Netherlands goes to the polls tomorrow haunted by the prospect of a peroxide-blond, anti-immigrant firebrand leading his party to victory. Following the political earthquakes that were Brexit and ...

Dual nationality and the hurdles facing Britons who want to keep EU citizenship after Brexit

One of the major implications of leaving the European Union for British nationals is the loss of EU citizenship. British nationals will no longer be able to enjoy the right to free movement within ...

The racial politics of time | Brittney Cooper - Ted Talks

Cultural theorist Brittney Cooper examines racism through the lens of time, showing us how historically it has been stolen from people of color, resulting in lost moments of joy and connection, lost ...

Why do airlines sell more seats than they have?

United Airlines are currently in trouble for their treatment of a passenger on an overbooked flight. Video of the elderly Asian man being violently dragged from the plane by security has sparked ...

Sturgeon's second independence referendum may be less well thought out than it seems

Yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon announced that the SNP will call for a second independence referendum in 2018, one year before Brexit negotiations are completed. The Prime Minister had not been warned of ...

Russian Political Astroturf Is Back

Before Alexey Navalny was released from jail on Monday, a staged “student demonstration” was making headlines to spoil his public return. Navalny, the unofficial leader of Russia’s unofficial ...

Lack of leadership hinders Nigeria’s nuclear road map

[ABUJA, NIGERIA] Lack of leadership is frustrating Nigeria’s 2000 target of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity from a nuclear plant by 2017, experts say. Nuclear scientists and engineers ...

What Will the Special Relationship Look Like After Brexit?

While you might expect more pomp and circumstance surrounding such a momentous occasion, the triggering of article 50 has been a largely stale affair. Despite attempts from news outlets to jazz it up ...

Trump's war on climate science - The Daily Show

As President Trump's administration quietly removes climate data from government websites, groups of hackers and scientists are mobilising to back up that data and move it to Canada. Climate ...

G7 Rejects British-led Call for new Syria Sanctions

The G7 has rejected British and American led calls for new sanctions on Russia and Syria. Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary, joined US commentators in calling for additional sanctions against the ...

MPs and Lords set for Brexit showdown

We could be set for a long night. The EU Withdrawal Bill is back in the House of Commons, after amendments were included in the Lords last week. Government ministers have urged the house to pass the ...

For Many Venezuelans, ‘Self-Inflicted Coup’ Spells the End of Their Country's Democracy

Venezuela seemed to be holding its breath expectantly at what will happen after the Supreme Court of Justice assumed the role of the National Assembly and permitted President Nicolas Maduro to take ...

GCHQ warns British politicians about Russian hacking

GCHQ has warned British politicians about Russian hacking, according to a report in the Sunday Times. The report alleges that the intelligence agency has reached out to political parties to warn of ...

Are the Tories Really More Ruthless?

As Labour’s moderates lament their party’s lack of impotus in changing leader, are they fair to say that the Tories are more ruthless? The Tories ditched Thatcher the moment she looked like ...

Stephen Colbert discusses Trump's border wall with a series of experts - The Late Show

Stephen Colbert of the Late Show sat down with some experts to find out how much Trump's border wall might cost. After wading through the vague promises and claims regarding the wall, they ...

Pariah States and International Agreements - The Paris Agreement

The UN isn't just the preserve of the world's most respected governments. It is easy to forget that the world's most troublesome states are also actively involved in the UN, and easy to assume they ...

Opposition Wins: The Essentials

In the past seventy years or so, there have been five really big changes in Government. Five mornings where everyone woke up to the election results and realised something genuinely significant had ...

Jeremy Corbyn: Abuser in Chief

The Labour party has always had a tumultuous relationship with the Hard Left, for years internal hard left factions have battled with the soft left for control of the party. Until ...

Kim Jong-nam's son - 'My father has been killed'

The nephew of North Korea's leader has confirmed on video that his father has been killed. Kim Jong-nam, the brother of the North Korean leader, died after a toxin was applied to his face in a ...

Cadbury's, the National Trust and Clickbait Provocateurs

Every Christmas and every Easter we have a new viral story. People desperate to find evidence that there really is a wild conspiracy against white Christians generally invent one, publicise it, and ...

The Great British Identity Problem

We are much less rational than we imagine. We British are not acting rationally these days about some of our big national choices. When foreign friends ask me with incomprehension about Brexit, I say ...

What Britain's post-Brexit immigration policy could look like

Huge questions hang over what Britain’s exit from the European Union will mean for the country’s immigration policy. Free movement of citizens between the UK and EU countries is coming to an end ...

Bridging the Divide With Abkhazia

About 330 kilometers (roughly 200 miles) west of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi lies the city of Zugdidi, the administrative center of the country's Samegrelo region. Another 10 kilometers or so ...

New Trump Executive Order Rolls Back Climate Regulation

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back much of former President Obama’s climate change policy. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than a dozen of ...

Ivan Rogers resignation: in febrile Brexit Britain, it seems even public servants are fair game

Ivan Rogers, who has resigned as the UK’s permanent representative to the EU was known to his peers as a public servant who genuinely understood the value of the neutral pursuit of the national ...

One Day Until Article 50 - What Remainers Should do Now

One day to go. Article 50 day. Some are calling for a national holiday. Some are calling for a national day of mourning. Some are already fed up of this ungodly Brexit mess. I was at the Lib Dem ...

Theresa May's hard Brexit hinges on a dated vision of global trade

A landmark speech by Theresa May, the prime minister of the UK, setting the direction of the country for its foreseeable future appears to place Britain firmly outside of the EU. May has ...

Power Sharing in Northern Ireland Falls Apart- Direct Rule Likely

Power sharing in Northern Ireland has collapsed, after talks to form a government fell apart. The Northern Ireland office must now determine the way ahead, and a period of direct rule is ...

Fish: The Overlooked Destabilizer in the South China Sea

Forecast South China Sea tensions will rise in the long-term as China exhausts its near-shore fisheries and continues to push outward to secure further stocks. In Asia, consumption of fish will ...

Westminster attack: the questions security professionals will be asking

Londoners were well aware that the next terror attack in the UK was a matter of when, not if, as the acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said soon after the incident at Westminster ...

Benedict Cumberbatch: The Tale of the 2016 Election - The Late Late Show

The 2016 US Presidential election was unprecedented in its bile. When Donald Trump descended that golden escalator, all normal rules no longer applied. From then, blatant racism, conspiracy and ...

Police update on Westminster terror attack

Police confirm 40 injured, the attacker and 4 others dead in Westminster terror attack. The injured include French school children, five South Korean tourists- including a 63 year old woman- and ...

Grammar schools are the answer... Kind of

The hysteria earlier in the week from people on the left surprised me. This time, the idea that the government could build a handful of new grammar schools has caused absolute outrage. This outrage ...

Terror Attack in Westminster

Today there was a terror attack on Parliament. As I work in the area, I've struggled to submit copy- I did early on, when it seemed like there had been a stabbing and shooting, but as soon as it ...

Kenyans Get an Early Start on Their Summer Election Season

Kenyans don't go to the polls until Aug. 8, but election fever is already gripping the country. On Twitter, one trending hashtag is #NotWithMyVote, which people are adding to tweets about their ...

Stephen Colbert Drops in on Stephen Colbert for The WERD: Screw Unto Others - The Late Show

Donald Trump's new budget proposal slashes funds for the arts, humanities, and Meals on Wheels. In fact, it's so vile that Stephen's identical twin cousin returned to praise ...

How South Africa's mining industry can change its ways

South Africa’s mining industry is increasingly cited as one of the key sectors that must yield “radical economic transformation” and help the country heal a deeply divided and unequal society. ...

UK Follows US in Banning Laptops in Planes From Muslim Majority Countries

The UK has followed the US in banning electrical devices on flights from six Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The ban applies to tablets, e-readers, DVD players and some ...

U.S. Chamber Official Meets with President of Ghana on Strengthening Bilateral Relationship

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Vice President of African Affairs and President of the U.S.-Africa Business Center Scott Eisner today met with His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, the newly elected ...

Article 50 to be Triggered Next Wednesday

Article 50, the provision of the Lisbon Treaty that forms the process of leaving the European Union, will be triggered next Wednesday, Downing Street has confirmed. This is in line with Theresa ...

I just don't know how YOUGOV sorts it's don't knows out

Hardly a snappy title but it is the best I could think of at the time, I do enjoy, and this might not come the top of most folks lists of enjoyments in life, but it is fairly high on mine. But, I do ...

Preemptive military action in North Korea 'on the table' - US Secretary of State

Today, the USA might have threatened to invade North Korea. In a dramatic break from past policy, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the US policy of ‘strategic patience’ is over and ...

Jeremy Corbyn and the left don’t understand how to win

Jeremy Corbyn last summer summed up the left: a rise from the obscurity of last century’s politics into the centre of attention. Corbyn’s ascent from backbench politics to becoming the leader of ...

Government pulls adverts from YouTube

The government has pulled ads from YouTube over fears that the adverts are appearing next to ‘inappropriate’ content, including extremist material. The government follows the Guardian and Channel ...

GBP’s Review of the first Trump/Clinton Presidential Debate

I’m writing this at 03:45 BST, with my reactions to the first Trump v Clinton debate. My immediate verdict? Trump was wholly defensive the entire time. He persisted by telling various ...

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