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Death of a political party

The death of Irish party the Progressive Democrats has been widely predicted. But now it may be time for them to go, argues Paul Evans, after they failed to break the mould

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A lack of Solidarity

  • By Mark Seddon
  • 25 September

Lech Walesa has angrily dismissed claims he was a double agent - codename 'Bolek' - as "a bunch of crap". Ask him about it and he'll walk out of the interview

The Pope's plot

  • By Agnès Poirier
  • 18 September

To speak of positive secularism is to imply that there are two kinds of secularism, one good, the other bad

Did Kosovo open up Pandora’s Box?

  • By Judy Fu
  • 15 September

If the international community intends to keep the floodgates to secessionist movements closed, it would do well to learn from Abkhazia and South Ossetia writes UNPO's Judy Fu

Cuban missile crisis II?

  • By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
  • 12 September

A ratcheting up of tension in the Caribbean is underway with the deployment of ships and other military hardware by the US and Russia. Where will it end asks Hugh O'Shaughnessy

A lesson from Germany

  • By Denis MacShane
  • 11 September

Across Europe, parties of the left are replacing their leaders in a desperate attempt to regain lost ground. Denis MacShane on what Labour should learn

One less crime hot spot

  • By Helena Smith
  • 11 September

Observations on Northern Cyprus

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Kate Adie's diary

Kate Adie's diary

I wondered if the breakfast show phone-in had a list of those Not to be Put on Air in Any Circumstances. Just like every other public access programme I've worked on, they did

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  • By David Caute
  • 11 September 2008

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  • 11 September 2008

Ordinary people

  • By Doris Lessing
  • 11 September 2008

Shown the red card

  • By Marc Bennetts
  • 04 September 2008

Is Ukraine next?

  • By Andrey Kurkov
  • 04 September 2008

Beginning of the end for Putinism

  • By Roger Boyes
  • 28 August 2008

The Czech crisis and the New Statesman

  • By Kingsley Martin
  • 28 August 2008

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