Opinion and feature articles.
The size zero debate rages on, yet the details are as slim as the models. Just who are these 'young girls' who are susceptible to eating problems, and what lies behind their disordered eating? The need for young women to have a healthy body image is clear, but could thousands of girls be at risk […]
Continue ReadingBillions of dollars have been allocated to rebuild Iraq, but average citizens are seeing little of it in their lives… Malnourished Iraqi children stand outside the highway's toilets looking for alms. Their job is to clean the overflowing toilets on the motorway from the Jordanian border to Baghdad. The actual road is in remarkable condition, accept for […]
Continue ReadingA traditional holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Kurdish people from a mythical tyrant is under threat… It is Newroz festival today. Newroz means 'new day' in Kurdish. They say this 'new day festival' is being celebrated in all Eastern cultures but for Kurdish people it means a lot more than a new day that says […]
Continue ReadingWeb TV and Video on Demand are threatening TV as we know it with old school operators running scared and the new breed clamouring for a slice of the pie… It was a beautiful day when the head of Disney finally came out and admitted piracy (or the “Dark Net” as they call it) is […]
Continue ReadingThe web's rescue home of spiked stories, deemed by network news controllers as too risky to run, questions why the 'Gray Lady' won't help it out… This is an important journalistic and public policy question. The Times claims to be the world's pre-eminent newspaper, it publishes the International Herald Tribune, has a major news service, […]
Continue ReadingAs women are bombarded with images of flawless models masquerading as older women regaining their youth, one woman fears for the effects on her daughter… In this age of beauty and youth-obsessed society, it seems that magazines have found a great marketing tool advertising products that promise to transform average middle-aged women into beautiful super-models […]
Continue ReadingA London resident questions whether the capital has become a narcotics epicentre against a daily backdrop of violence and drugs raids… Last night I was again woken by police sirens in my neighbourhood as another house in my street was raided for drugs. It will be at least the ninth one since I moved into […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Noam Chomsky casts a cold eye on world affairs, the Danish cartoon issue, Iran and the war in Iraq, and the dangers of living in a nuclear age… The anti-war critic, Noam Chomsky, recently said the Danish cartoon issue wasn’t a matter of press freedom, nor indeed a conflict between the West and the […]
Continue ReadingThe job of the journalist has never been an easy one, but governments threaten to make it all but impossible if they remove reporters' privilege… They must seek information that no-one wants to give, endanger themselves and their families by going into war zones and areas of violent conflict, publish stories that reveal injustices or […]
Continue ReadingWho has the right to refuse two partners marriage? Someone who has never even met the couples concerned: enter President Bush… Apparently a religious man, US President George W Bush moved last month to put a constitutional ban on same sex marriages. Mr Bush used his weekly radio address to deliver a plea for the […]
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