WE’VE all got questions we’d like to ask Peter Hain - not all of them nice or easy. The Independent’s ‘You Ask The Questions’ next public figure up for public interrogation is our Dear Leader, so send your email query to {encode=”myquestion@independent.co.uk” title=”myquestion@independent.co.uk”} with his name in the subject line. But for Heaven’s sake, don’t expect a straight answer!
With perhaps the longest title of any book I’ve read this year, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East gives an insight into the lives of people living in Middle East through the eyes of journalist Neil MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar’s father was a chemical engineer [...] read our review »
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
“Secretary of State to be questioned…”
Pity it isn’t in Abu Ghraib