The United Nations is being sued, for the first time in its history, for alleged complicity in the crime of genocide. Lawyers are instituting a case on behalf of two Rwandan women whose families died during the 1994 genocide in which 800,000, mostly Tutsi people, were slaughtered by Hutus. The United Nations is being sued, [...]

It could, for example, provide you with an additional lump sum on retirement. Generally, endowments cancelled within the first ten years, tend to provide only a very small amount of terms of investment return and often individuals are surprised to find out that they do not even receive a return of their premiums in that [...]

Their failure to take an interest in children’s schooling is one of the main reasons for failure to learn to read and to add up.The research reveals a cycle of educational deprivation with half of those who are poor readers coming from over-crowded homes. And it concludes: “The role of the primary school in being [...]

Some of us like to claim that humans are the only property-owning animal, but even if this were true – for tribes of monkeys defend their turf and dogs fight over bones – it would be a recommendation only from arguable ideological standpoints.Cognition, higher consciousness, even perhaps conscience and soul are attributes we assign to [...]

To find out how these events look from Brussels or Strasbourg, or what seemed important to the public in other European countries, has become almost impossible. It is like trying to listen to Radio Free Europe in the bad old days, through the jamming. IT’S SUNDAY evening and I’m standing in the police office at [...]

we must take soft options, not hard choices.”But formulaic language aside, the Blair tactic isn’t at all meaningless. The temptation is increased by the numbing, tumpety-tum prose considered essential for new-Labour launches: “We are proud of our past but we are not living in it.” Or: “This new programme … is not about soft options [...]