Rarely in recent months has a visit of a dignitary to these shores caused such a stir as that of the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. There’s the on-going row over Cameron’s comments that Pakistan’s intelligence service “looks both...

The School of the Americas needs to be shut down before it causes one more death or other serious abuse of human rights in Latin America. President Obama came in with radical ideas and powerful speeches and I must admit that I was...

Some people do not like music and I think that they miss out on a wonderful expression of human creativity As a musician I think that listening to and playing music is a human right although I am certainly fussy about which music I...

UPDATE The Cuba Solidarity Campaign reports that Gerardo Hernandez has been returned to the general prison population, as we were demanding. ORIGINAL ARTICLE The TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to US Secretary of State...

Don the hat, pick out the nice shoes, look for a smart tie. Ah summer, and wedding season. Don’t you just love it. This weekend it was the little village of Rhinbeck off the Hudson River that took centre stage, as the former first...