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Democracy
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ministers in minority governments live from day to day, hoping to find the right moment to call the general election that will give them a decisive majority but fearing that it will be forced on them at a time when their unp (Read More)
The Guardian:
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil TigersSri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the int (Read More)
The Guardian:
Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool, where he grew up, to report on a story of deprivation and hopeIn a parade of shops on County Road in Walton, north Liverpool, a couple of signs compete for attention. "Slip! T (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition a (Read More)
New York Times:
A majority of Pakistan’s young people think that the nation is on the wrong course, and they are divided between a preference for democracy and Islamic law.
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New York Times:
A survey found that youths were divided between a preference for democracy and Islamic law, worrisome for a nation fighting in an Islamist insurgency.
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India Times:
Pakistan faces a demographic disaster if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy, a report commissioned by the British Council said. (Read More)
The Guardian:
If a demonstration against 'the Islamisation of Europe' takes place next month, our peaceful protest will be there to meet itEver since our successful demonstration against al-Muhajiroun (under the name of Islam4UK) on the 31 (Read More)
The Guardian:
By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democraticThe fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented. Most laments focus on a single obvious fact: b (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Cathy Ashton's meteoric rise has surprised many, but not those who know her bestWhen Cathy Ashton arrived in Brussels at short notice just over a year ago she had to attend to some urgent business: removing traces of her pred (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxesIf someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster'• Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findingsPakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Choice of European council president seen as move to block Turkish accession to EURobert Tait IstanbulEurope's new president, Herman Van Rompuy, faced a furious backlash in Turkey yesterday amid reports of his hostility to th (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
It would be hard to imagine a less democratic process for appointing the EU president. I should know – I tried toThe news from Brussels is something to slowly savour. For those of us in the Euro-project sceptic camp, the anno (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny?The serious charges levelled by critics at the Dispatches documentary investigating the UK pro-Israel lobby (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Sixth damning ruling in Binyam Mohamed case • Foreign secretary's claims of security risk dismissedThe high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA's i (Read More)
The Guardian:
US resident accused of fraud but supporters say charges are punishment for years of activismA long-term US resident and former leader of student protests in Tiananmen Square went on trial in China this morning, one day after (Read More)
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