The Dialogue Forum on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States of America and the European Union that took part in Berlin on May 5 ahead of the next round of talks planned on May 19 stimulated the foreign mass media to resume the debate on […]

The Internet mass surveillance program implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States has once more become the focus of interest of experts and the global community after the speech made by Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor, on PACE session on 8 April via videolink. In his […]

Sometimes, it seems that if somebody stuck a frock coat or a bodice on a dried-up dog turd, any gullible American tourist might buy it. There’s something of that when it comes to some of our TV programmes. Throw in one of the classics – a Dickens or a Shakespeare or a Bronte – and old Uncle […]

The issue of energy security once again became one of the most discussed subjects after the statement made by Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council. At the end of a two-day summit held in Brussels on March 20-21, he said that the European Union (EU) plans to […]

We all know that the ivory trade costs the lives of tens of thousands of elephants a year. There have been huge campaigns over the last six months, both in the form of protests, celebrity Twitter campaigns and huge coverage in the press, of the fact that the wild elephant will […]

Sunday 20th of April. 420 Day Protests The day ended as it had begun, cold and wet. I had arrived at my local train station to find that I was nearly a whole hour early for the train I intended to catch. As I sat on the platform and waited, […]

Many celebrities down the years have gone off the rails and done both odd and destructive things, sometimes on purpose and other times due to the issues that they are experiencing. The stresses, issues and problems that the world’s most famous people face on a daily basis have been brought […]

It’s been twenty eight days since Malaysian flight 370 went missing and the story has, understandably, dominated the headlines. But in a very writerly sense I decided to take a step back and think about why it is these stories capture our attention in such a phenomenal way.  Of course […]