Ian Birchall explains why he is not impressed by recent attempts to rehabilitate the monarchy.
The Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi spoke to Wael Fateen about women, globalisation and the Middle East.
Discrimination against Palestinians runs through the state of Israel. Sabby Sagall traces its origins.
New Labour's favourite union leader is facing problems in the forthcoming election.
It was wrong to call for a vote for Chirac against Le Pen in the recent French elections.
'The centre cannot hold.' This is the conclusion of the French presidential election, whose results sent shock-waves around the world.
As polls closed after the first round of the French presidential election on 21 April exit polls were expected to confirm that the second round on 5 May would pit the incumbent prime minister, Lionel Jospin, against the outgoing president, Jacques Chirac.
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They came in their tens of thousands, young and old, black and white. Within hours of the news that Le Pen had come second in the first round of the presidential election, the boulevards of central Paris were filled with protesters.
Can Le Pen's success be repeated in Britain? This is the big question as we go to press, with local elections only days away.
Four years ago it all looked so different. Social Democratic parties had swept to office in all but three European Union states, in some cases, as in Britain, putting an end to over a decade of right wing rule.
