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Blue wave needs red vision

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bluewave

On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event ...

Polling day quagmire

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Hamid Karzai

James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now On August 20, the population of Afghanistan (or some of it, at any rate) went to the polls to elect their president. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, remains the favourite, as the votes are counted. The mood in much of the western media, at the outset, was cautiously optimistic. ...