Britain's anti-terrorism campaign exposes the British government's cynicism and hypocrisy, writes Gavin Bowd
The august medieval town of St Andrews could be seen as aloof from the tawdry politicking of current times. Its last taste of geopolitics (...)
These are dangerous times for British diplomacy, warns Gavin Bowd
On the back of a successful Labour Party conference, and a dismal one for the Conservative Opposition, Tony Blair and his new Labour servants re-embarked on a campaign to strengthen (...)
Tony Blair's gang-ho calls for going to war in Iraq did not square well within his own party, reports Gavin Bowd from London
"Of course we are in favour of a regime change in Iraq," said Prime Minister Blair several times last week. "But", he (...)
Le Pen was defeated on Sunday's French presidential poll, but his initial success in the first round left an ugly stain on the French political establishment, writes Gavin Bowd
So the worst, it seems, has been avoided. With 82 per cent of the vote, (...)
Brandishing the Bible in one hand and the Qur'an in the other Tony Blair makes believe he is waging a humanist kind of warfare, writes Gavin Bowd from London
So they're back. After more than a century, British troops are back in Afghanistan. In a (...)
With Northern Irish peace talks still bogged down in the mire, the tenability of the Good Friday Agreement falls into question, writes Gavin Bowd from London
This weekend, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Reid temporarily (...)
Tony Blair may have won the elections, but he seems to be fast losing the depressed immigrant communities, writes Gavin Bowd
In 1981, the year of the ill-fated wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, race riots burned through the (...)
New Labour wins the election, but not without a warning, writes Gavin Bowd from London
Despite being described by many as the dullest British general election in living memory, the results of 7 June make strangely fascinating reading. Elected to a (...)
Even if the entire British herd perishes from the foot-and-mouth epidemic, a dripping Argentinean roast will still be waiting on the table, notes Gavin Bowd from London
To quote New Labour's 1997 campaign song, "Things can only get better." After (...)
By Gavin Bowd
It seemed that the NATO campaign in the Balkans was bearing fruit. Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown by the Yugoslav people, apparantly demonstrating the success of the sanctions policy. Last week, the former president of the Bosnian (...)
By Gavin Bowd
The organisers of United States President Bill Clinton's last official visit to Northern Ireland did not fail to provide the media with telling symbols. Clinton was to address 8,000 people in the Odyssey Sports and Culture Centre, (...)
By Gavin Bowd
The Socialists under were reacting against the sleaze and neo-liberalism of the late Mitterrand years; the Communists were ridding themselves of the Soviet legacy; while the Greens were proposing an alternative which combined (...)