In a managerial appointment that has surprised, bewildered and confounded in equal measure, the English Football Association has decided to appoint Roy Hodgson as the successor to Fabio Capello as manager of the England men’s senior football team. In a press conference called at Wembley on Tuesday 1st May, the […]

As a Kofi Annan-sponsored ceasefire between the government and rebels in Syria teeters on the brink of collapse, it is as poignant as it is heart-rending to note the parallels between this tortured conflict and the violence in the Balkans twenty years ago. The United Nations, a bloated, out-of-touch political […]