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The great rallying cry of New Labour on entering office in 1997 was that they would be “tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime”. The liberal media were of one voice in →

In a departure from the usual format of media alerts, we are providing Media Lens subscribers with a preview of the following article. A slightly edited version will be published (under a different title) in →

“The whole aim of practical politics,” H.L. Mencken once wrote, “is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” The contemporary hobgoblins of choice, of →

To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders are meeting in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, →

The bloody history of Western support for Indonesia’s illegal annexation of East Timor in 1975 is glossed over in a recent news report by Kathy Marks in The Independent (‘Australia bows to East Timor over →

Should US and UK politicians be brought to account for alleged crimes against humanity in Iraq, Serbia, Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere? Last week’s appearance by Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, in front of →