Crimes against Humanity in Darfur

The Facts:
More than 90,000 are believed to have been killed during conflict with a further 200,000 thought to have died from conflict related causes (estimates of the total death toll thus far ranges between 300,000 – 450,000);
A further 2.7 million people are said to be displaced living in camps for refugees or internally displaced people [...]

The inauguration of:

The United States of America’s 44th President.

On Thin Ice

Has George Galloway gone too far this time by suggesting that the assassination of Tony Blair may be morally justified? In an interview for GQ he was asked the question “Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber – if there were no other casualties – be justified as revenge for [...]

Euston, I have a couple of problems!

Social Theory has gone mad. Click onto any of my weblog links and I’m sure you’ll get just as intrigued by this E-Team business as I am. If you’re (like me) a regular lurker on Comment is Free I wonder if your head is whirling as fast as mine. Down with John Lloyd; Rise [...]

Family Designers

Last week I watched one part of the three part BBC drama, Family Man in which Trevor Eve stars as a fertility expert and revolutionary IVF doctor. One of the families that turn to Dr Patrick Stowe for treatment lost their son in a tragic accident and seek help to determine the sex of an [...]