Upheavals in the former Soviet Empire have added to Vladimir Putin's headaches.
Dragan Plavsic looks at the bloody parallels between the Balkans and Iraq.
Steven Spielberg's forthcoming adaptation of The War of the Worlds prompts Mark Bould to take a critical look at the work of HG Wells.
The right wing media and the three main political parties constantly tell us that the trade union movement is an anachronism - that working class people are powerless to organise against neoliberalism. But this was not the message sent out by the government's retreat over public sector pensions last month.
Michael Howard has again scoured the gutter by attacking travellers and Gypsies.
