[Alexandra Piletska]
Student life here has always been a bit loud, but not in an exciting Brighton-kind of loud: Cambridge is not a party city and shouldn’t try to be. Rather, it is home to a more irritating sort of loud, where doors are slammed early in the morning and tasteless music is played at all […]
A plea for silence
Let the sleeping dragon lie?
[Denis Shatokhin]
Following the protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, and especially since the violent suppression of dissenters by Chinese security forces, there are an increasing number of calls for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This boycott would supposedly put the Chinese government under immense pressure and force them to improve their human […]
Don’t forget North Korea
[Tom Hammond]
Leon Trotsky once delighted in telling his political opponents that they had been ‘consigned to the dustbin of history.’ Leaving aside the cruel irony that Trotsky himself was soon to be the victim of Stalinist retouching of the past, much of world opinion might seem to wish the same fate on the presidency of […]