The Orwell Prize is awarded each year for political writing. There will be an event on 22 October 2008 at the Frontline Club, launching the 2009 Prize. The question for debate: Is journalism failing failing states? The website also...

Some of you may have heard Amnesty’s Democratic Republic of Congo researcher on the Today programme at 6.50 this morning. He spoke movingly of the dreadful impact that the conflict in eastern DRC is having on the general population in...

The Belfast and Beyond blog has just turned two. What have been your favourite B&B stories? We've been following the Taser saga from day one and the story is still going strong. Indeed this blog broke new ground when we published the...

First they came for the foreign students, and I didn't speak up because I was not a foreign student. Then they came for those on marriage visas, and I didn't speak up because that didn't apply to me. Then it was the turn of the airport...

Young people under the age of 26 are to be given theatre tickets in a new government initiative and taxpayers will be paying £2.5 million. Will that be money well spent? Will the young people want to go to the theatre and if they do...