We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits was promised and has earned.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and...
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide...
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US...
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain's...
The world dominion of western thought forms of organisation technology and...
In modern society where most people live in cities and where both needs and...
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science -...
Whatever else it was Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal...
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain...
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East the Arabs would no more need...
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding...
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is and always has...
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without...
First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the...
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that...
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about...
Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or...
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about...
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game but...