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Israeli officials may have less to fear coming to UK but uncomfortable questions remain
Despite a change in the universal jurisdiction legislation last year, Israeli officials and military officers are still not visiting Britain for fear of arrest on war crimes charges.
By Ben White | Notebook, iPolitics | Friday, 1 June 2012 at 4:00 am
Nick Clegg: Charity tax U-turn means ordinary taxpayers will subsidise rich people’s donations
Clang. Another budget u-turn drops. All charity donations will now be exempt from the clampdown on tax avoidance.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 12:35 pm
Heard the one about the ladyboy? Media jokes about trans people are not acceptable
“Transsexual” has become shorthand for someone ridiculous, someone unnamed, someone that nice, middle-class people probably don’t know. Transphobia has passed the dinner table test because those who mock trans people simply don’t expect to see one of us at their dinner tables. I’d like to petition high profile trans newsreaders and politicians to raise awareness, but none exist. Trans people are today’s Aunt Sallys – and comics throw pies at us with impunity.
By Paris Lees | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Today’s Ireland vote begs the question: Will the EU be the death of democracy?
With Ireland going to the vote today and Greece on June the 17th, David Bowden argues that those who call for a more technocratic (and less Democratic) European Union are the real problem with Europe. We need to be serious about holding the EU to account for the mess that we’re in today.
By David Bowden | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Do, do run, Ron. Run. Do, do run, Ron
Is Ron Paul betraying the movement he built?
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk, iPolitics | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 3:22 pm
When will US Republicans realise gay marriage is their natural bedfellow?
Clara Cullen argues that giving government the constitutional power to define what, or more importantly what does not constitute a marriage infringes upon traditional small government values at the heart of US Republican ideology. If they continue to insist on staunchly adhering to socially conservative values, she argues, they will become increasingly out of touch electorally.
By Clara Cullen | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 2:00 pm
New Argentine play on the Malvinas / Falklands portrays Thatcher as devil, the British as pirates
In the play “Malvinas, islas de la memoria” about the Malvinas / Falklands war, currently running at the Cervantes National theatre in Buenos Aires, writer / director Julio Cardoso and his team make it clear that parody is the only possible way to look back and laugh.
By Mariana Marcaletti | Arts, Notebook, iPolitics | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 2:00 am
Where all the Lib Dems have gone
At the weekend we splashed on how 26 per cent of Tory voters would “seriously consider” voting for UKIP, after 10 per cent have already made the switch. I went back to ComRes to find out where the other parties vote has gone. This is what the results show – and they make grim reading for Nick Clegg.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 1:35 pm
Wow. The graph to delight Miliband backers
Last month I blogged on how Ed Miliband was performing better, and his supporters would be looking for an uptick in his poll ratings. As the Labour party extended its lead over the Tories, there was still the feeling that this was an anti-government vote, and that Miliband was being out-polled by his party.
In April, [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Monday, 21 May 2012 at 9:37 am
Farewell, Ken
Last night, I sat in City Hall as Ken Livingstone’s political career ended; bizarrely, my parents were there as it was beginning. Back in the early 1970s, they were all members of Norwood Labour party’s insurgent left, battling the party’s right together following the perceived disappointments and betrayals of Harold Wilson’s Government. And so began a two-pronged struggle that would mark the rest of Ken’s career: against the Tories on the one hand, and the right-wing flank of his own party.
By Owen Jones | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Saturday, 5 May 2012 at 11:14 pm
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