Egyptian diplomat Mohamed Mostafa El Baradei is a man who sticks out his neck whatever the circumstances.

As the European Union begins to implement a new treaty aimed at assisting member nations to work together, and as American President Barack Obama is to receive a Nobel Prize

Barack Obama, the US president, has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo - days after he ordered an escalation of US involvement in the war in

So what are the odds? The week I write a cover story for the New Statesman, arguing that President Obama has turned into "Barack W Bush" and is emulating his

The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually