Leah O'Donovan

An article in the Guardian today claims that the US Department of Justice may be opening a criminal investigation into BAE, Britain’s largest arms company, under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). About bloody time, I say. BAE is accused of making £1 billion pounds worth of payments to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia (aka [...]

I came across this little gem of an article today in the Guardian US arms Sunni dissidents in risky bid to contain al-Qaida fighters in Iraq. What the…? I said to myself as I began to read it. Sure enough, the US army is now beginning to hand over weapons and ammunition to Sunni citizens [...]

I love the idea of a good British inquiry. They seem to have inquiries for everything over here. Now, Conservative MPs have called for an inquiry into the Iraq war. The Government has, of course, declined any such occurrence on the grounds that it is not the right time to hold an inquiry because it [...]

I’m sure many of us remember last year’s highlight of the G8 conference and, unfortunately, it wasn’t any of the policies world leaders discussed. It was the ground-breaking, heart-stopping, cringe-worthy shout from the lexically-challenged George W. Bush as he yelled across the room of elite world leaders: ‘Yo Blair!’ This cartoon appeared in today’s Guardian [...]