I’ve just got back to the Edinburgh office from the ceremony to announce the 2010 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, and can happily announce that Cora Bissett’s ‘Roadkill’ was the winner. The play tackles the issue of...

Sometimes it takes a twist to make something appealing, and one heavyweight TV programme that still sticks in my mind is the Will Self-fronted investigation into Britain’s arms industry from 2002. Though I’m no fan of his novels (his...

Good news from the world of mining isn’t just coming in the form of improvised telephones for trapped miners in Chile. Today we learned that the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests has rejected a mining project proposed by UK...

Amnesty International warned today that proposed reforms of China’s applicationof the death penalty may not result in significantly fewer executions. Chinese government news agency Xinhua reported today that proposed amendmentsto China...

In a bid to expose its execution practice, Japan will allow journalists to visit its Tokyo chamber of death for the first time. Richard Lloyd Parry in The Times reports that ‘executions are a mixture of the chilling and the...