What does the British government think sanctions on Israel will achieve? Opinion Would it be highly cynical to suggest that Labour are changing Britain’s policy on Israel in search of domestic political advantage, asks Eliot Wilson If politics is the art of persuasion, as Aristotle’s Rhetorike seems to suggest, then there are some subjects which will always be fruitless and frustrating: abortion, capital punishment, Kashmir, Cyprus. Into [...]
China spying scandal: What the hell is going on? Video The head of MI5 warns that Chinese spying in the UK is taking place on “an epic scale” – yet the government can’t bring itself to describe China as a threat. What the hell is going on? Sir Ken McCallum, the Director General of MI5, doesn’t make many speeches in public. As one of Britain’s [...]