World Affairs: Global Issues
Lead Feature
How a continent missed its moment
Mbeki's grand project has been sabotaged by his inability to view events on the continent outside a narrow racial prism
In global issues
The bare life of immigrants
- By Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
- 30 June
A new EU directive allows tougher action against illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Western citizens are able to work around the globe. Iselin Åsedotter Strønen detects an irony
How to be a carbon vigilante
- By Chris Adams
- 26 June
Chris Adams writes on carbon trading schemes and buying one's way back into heaven.
Fabricate that fear
- By John Pilger
- 26 June
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
Mormons and gay marriage
- By Tom Quinn
- 25 June
According to Mormon doctrine, homosexual is not a noun but rather an adjective to be applied to either actions or feelings. Therefore there are no homosexuals...
A future for the Chagossians
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders
In defence of drilling
- By Jim DiPeso
- 23 June
Jim DiPeso, Policy Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection, explains McCain's take on the environment, including his proposal to allow offshore drilling
Feature
Chagos and the Law Lords
Witnessing the evidence as the Lord Laws hear the case of the Chagos Islanders - forcibly removed from their homes by the British in the 1960s and 1970s
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Power v poverty
- By Duncan Green
- 19 June 2008
Can't take the heat
- By Andrew Stephen
- 19 June 2008
Anger of the earthquake parents
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 12 June 2008
After the oil crunch?
- By Mark Lynas
- 12 June 2008
The big story in Helmand?
- By Brian Cathcart
- 05 June 2008
Crash: The housing crisis is just beginning
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 05 June 2008
The green fig leaves
- By Jan Rocha
- 29 May 2008
