I’m a Guardian reader. Middle-class, well educated, long-haired and liberal, I don’t exactly dispel the stereotypes associated with the paper whose readers think they ought to run the country. Nor, as one of those lefty, anti-war, environmentalist types who grew up worrying about the state of the world, should it come as any surprise that [...]
Guest post by Andy Yee “If we are serious about the ambition of a nuclear-free world we will need statesmanship, not brinkmanship,” Gordon Brown said today as he told the UN General Assembly that Britain was preparing to cut its nuclear arsenal and warned Iran and North Korea of further sanctions. North Korea’s missile launch [...]
September 21st is the UN’s international day of ceasefire and non-violence and, in honour of the event, I am pleased to report The Third Estate has started no new wars today. Instead, I shall grace you with a very, very old poem I wrote many years ago on September 21st. PEACE ONE DAY From the [...]
