Mark Seddon

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Interview: Michael Foot

  • 06 November 2008
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In 1983 Michael Foot led Labour into a general election with a manifesto dubbed "the longest suicide note in history". One proposal, to nationalise banks, seems rather prescient

A lack of Solidarity

  • 25 September 2008

Lech Walesa has angrily dismissed claims he was a double agent - codename 'Bolek' - as "a bunch of crap". Ask him about it and he'll walk out of the interview

North Korea's future

  • 15 September 2008
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Reports of the Dear Leader’s demise point to a more serious problem. There's no clear successor to Kim Jong Il, and North Korea's political and military leadership is increasingly aged

Secretive saviours

  • 05 June 2008
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The rivers of cash from big business that Tony Blair wanted to replace trade union money have dried to a trickle

Talking to the enemy

  • 17 January 2008

North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival
Glyn Ford and Soyoung Kwon Pluto Press, 256pp, £18.99

Surreal Korea

  • 26 July 2007

North Korea is even stranger than the picture painted of it, as Mark Seddon found out after a close shave

Human rights? Not for you

  • 13 February 2006

Observations on outposts

Not quite the last word

  • 13 June 2005

Observations on Marx

Smaller size, higher brow?

  • 21 February 2005

Observations on the Guardian

A forgotten minority

  • 24 January 2005

Observations on Iraq (1)

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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