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Lubanga: a step on the road to ending impunity

by Sam Bright In the aftermath of conflict, be it world war, civil war, or armed banditry, an important question arises. What are we to do with those responsible for acts committed beyond the accepted...

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Red briefcases at dawn? How to respond to the budget

by Sam Bright Ed Miliband must have woken up with with a sense of foreboding today. It is a challenging task for any Leader of the Opposition: to respond to a highly-detailed, hour-long speech by a...

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Book Review: Shantaram – a non-literary review

The author wearing cowboy accessories, much like Vikram in his novel by Sam Bright Gregory David Roberts is no ordinary author. His own life story, much of which is apparently a matter of public...

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The forgotten people of the Nuba Mountains

By Sam Bright An old woman lives in a cave to escape the Antonovs that regularly drop their deadly payload over her village. She knows that she shares the cave with any number of lethally poisonous...

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To fight or not to fight: the legal case for and against intervening in Syria

by Sam Bright Estimates vary, but it is possible that as many as 14,000 people have been killed by the fighting that has cursed Syria for over a year. The fighting shows no signs of abating. There have...

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Drones strikes are a necessary element of US foreign policy. Discuss.

Sam Bright – for The policy of using unmanned drones to target terrorists and insurgents was pioneered by President George W Bush’s administration in the years following 9/11, and the invasions of...

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A complex game of regulatory whodunnit – who to blame for the LIBOR scandal?

Individual responsibility or collective fault? Who to point the finger at in the LIBOR scandal by Sam Bright Whodunnit? Barclays Bank has been fairly comprehensively trashed in the past couple of...

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No Nigel, UKIP is not Britain’s third party…

…but that does not mean you can’t be a back-seat driver Still no seats, Nigel. By Babak Moussavi and Sam Bright Labour’s predictable victory in a recent spate of byelections across England was not seen...

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Book Review: Rewriting History – Tim Jeal’s Stanley

by Sam Bright Mark Twain, a man who knew a thing or two about recognising a great tale of adventure, said in 1878, “Stanley is almost the only man alive today whose name and work will be familiar one...

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Crisis? The need for an inter-temporal and international perspective

by Sam Bright There is no doubt that we are in a time of crisis. We are told this every day, by politicians and newspapers, people talk about it in the pub and around the dinner table. The fact of...

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