The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?

• 24 juillet 2012

Quebec's student protesters give UK activists a lesson

In the face of a systematic assault on education, the Classe group has hit on a strategy that has the power to succeed

• 4 juin 2012

Scottish independence referendum

Salmond attacks UK's 'bullying tactics'

First minister invites PM to discuss referendum and likens Westminster's treatment of Scotland to behaviour towards Ireland

• 13 janvier 2012

Our financial system has become a madhouse. We need radical change

As a new global crisis looms, and political paralysis worsens, genuinely bold solutions are required to overcome the malaise

• Will Hutton
• 12 décembre 2011

Israel must restart talks with its neighbours or face isolation, says US

Defence secretary Leon Panetta says Israel needs to focus on diplomacy as well as security as he travels to Middle East

• 4 octobre 2011

Iran revolutionary guards' commander set to become president of Opec

Rostam Ghasemi, who is blacklisted by western powers, could have major role in determining global oil price

• 27 juillet 2011

Prince William and Kate heckled by protesters in Quebec

Anti-monarchist separatist movement tells 'parasite' duke and duchess to go home

• 4 juillet 2011

Canada's cold new dawn

Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is our version of George W Bush, minus the warmth and intellect

• 5 mai 2011

Student fees protest

'This is just the beginning'

Tory HQ attacked as demonstration spirals out of control • 35 arrested and 14 injured in violent clashes at Millbank • Police admit being caught out by scale of student action

• 11 novembre 2010

Student protests

Demonstration effect

Government plans to triple tuition fees and slash government teaching grants in higher education prompted a huge turnout

• 11 novembre 2010

Clare Short: Tony Blair lied and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq war

• 2 février 2010

Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling

The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen

• 1 décembre 2009