Life without plastic: My picnic hiccup (BBC News) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:16:29 GMT Avoiding plastic is all very well when it just impacts on my own choices but trying to keep it up in company is more difficult. Some friends organised a picnic on Saturday which was lovely - we even had sunny weather.
Webb's America (BBC News) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:32:50 GMT Will the Democratic Convention be all about the Clintons?
Superpower swoop (The New Statesman) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:06:57 GMT What Russia and America are really doing in Georgia and who set the trap? Vladimir Putin and his thuggish FSB pals or Dick Cheney and his equally unflappable neocon friends?