"I never tell people about my work. A lot of people have been killed for working with the British or

Observations on Iran where there are phemonenal numbers of nose jobs

There is obvious fellow feeling between Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, but the PKK's actions

Perhaps the greatest success of the surge has been the way it was unquestioningly accepted as a pana

The government has been forced to publish the secret first draft of the Iraq WMD dossier written by

The last thing the west wants is to dismantle the barriers separating "us" from "them". They are vit

Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq

Jonathan Steele I B Tauris, 304pp, £20

Simon Akam takes a stroll down the crumbling, 19th-century boulevards of Cairo's European quarter

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In the week of the New Statesman's special edition on God, Maryam Namazie explains why she rejected

The Second Plane

Martin Amis Jonathan Cape, 224pp, £12.99

Combine the foolishness of American banks with the hesitancy of British ministers, and you produce a

The foreign secretary explains he has identified four great progressive causes for the world.

Set by John O'Byrne

"For me 2007 has been the year of the historians," wrote Dav