Mayor Rahm Emanuel is on the ropes in a city where one party has monopolised power longer than the Communists…
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Tag Archives: The Independent
Alexander Cockburn: Crusading reporter and polemicist who was unafraid to espouse unpopular causes
Reporter, polemicist, pamphleteer, champion of the downtrodden, horseman, and classic car collector, Alexander Cockburn set a high standard of crusading…
Continue reading →Lord Acton: Hereditary peer who was instrumental in ending the inherited right to vote in the House of Lords
Although a hereditary peer, Richard Acton was one of the prime movers of Lords reform that in 1999 led to…
Continue reading →Do we stop caring after the miners are free?
At last men came to set me free; I ask’d not why, and reck’d not where; It was at length…
Continue reading →Obituary: John Cooley: Scholar-reporter on the Middle East
John Cooley covered the Middle East for American newspapers and radio from 1953 until his death. As correspondent of The…
Continue reading →The life of a hostage: terrifying, unjust and expendable
Alan Johnston told a press conference after his release yesterday morning, “They did threaten my life a number of times.…
Continue reading →Obituary – Major Derek Cooper, MC, OBE, World War II hero who espoused the Palestinian cause
There was no more improbable sight in Beirut during the brutal Israeli siege of 1982 than a graceful and elegant…
Continue reading →Pamela Cooper: Campaigner for Victims of War – Obituary
In the summer of 1982, while Lebanon was under Israeli attack as it is now, Pamela Cooper worked tirelessly helping…
Continue reading →My Mentor: Charles Glass on Peter Jennings
The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who…
Continue reading →Free speech is for everyone – even David Irving
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and…
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