Great Britain

Triumph of the Wills

Daniel Brook : Non-Fiction

A new apologia for Anglo-Saxon noblesse oblige needs a reality check.
In Transports of Horror and Delight

Alexander Cockburn : France

On airports Heathrow and De Gaulle, bicycles and trains.
Waiting for Gordon

D.D. Guttenplan : Europe

Britain's incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.
The Polonium Papers

Edward Jay Epstein : Russia

A lack of hard evidence in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has stopped neither the wheels of British justice nor the cameras of Hollywood.
Labour Crowns King Brown

Gary Younge : Tony Blair

The one pledge Gordon Brown can deliver that would make his transition to power meaningful is to withdraw from Iraq immediately.
Open Letter to Prince Harry

Amir Soltani Sheikoleslami : Iraq War

Be a prince of peace: Don't go to Iraq.

2006

Blair, Brown, Blah

Gary Younge : Tony Blair

Tony Blair's sorry record on Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon--and the rise of a new, viable leader of the Conservative Party--could spell doom for Gordon Brown and the Labour Party.
Londonistan Calling

Gary Younge : Fiction

Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.
Party of a Different Color

Mark Hertsgaard : Global Warming & Climate Change

"Vote Blue, Go Green" is the new slogan of Britain's Conservative Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming to politicians of all stripes.
Zones of Disengagement

Richard Vinen : Cultural Criticism & Analysis

In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini encapsulates the paradoxes that dominate discussion of the English cultural landscape.
Typecast as a Terrorist

Adam Federman : Film

The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.

Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool

Naomi Klein : Racism & Discrimination

Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.
After the Bombs

D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis

Friends in the States seemed to assume that this was London's 9/11--it wasn't.
Terror Comes to London

: War on Terrorism

The London bombings are another reminder that Bush's invasion of Iraq was a counterproductive response to 9/11.
London After the Bombing

Maria Margaronis : Al Qaeda

The attacks seemed designed to maximize fear, not casualties.
Harry's Travails

Alexander Cockburn : Anti-Semitism