The capture of 15 Royal Navy personnel by Iran has been used to ratchet up the threats against the country. The US has sent two aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf, with a third battle group on its way this week. All three are nuclear armed.
For decades the names of Charing Cross Road and Bloomsbury in central London have been synonymous with independent bookshops. But in recent years these stores have been squeezed by increasing financial pressures.
GhostsDirected by Nick BroomfieldDVD (Tartan Video) £19.99
This excellent film by the documentary maker Nick Broomfield dramatises events leading up to the tragic drowning of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay three years ago.
Radical education change needed
The government’s plan to raise the school leaving age from 16 to 18 is, at first glance, a perfectly reasonable proposal.
More than 60 years after the genocide of between 11 and 12 million people, the Nazi Holocaust remains a critical part of the human experience. The recorded testimony of it by eyewitnesses and victims has been turned into thousands of books – virtually all the literature is moving and important.
The 5th Cairo anti-war conference, held in Egypt last week, was a demonstration of the growing resistance in the Middle East and its links to the worldwide anti-war movement.
