Leah O'Donovan

Hillary Clinton must be just a little bit irked with the fact that Bill was able to turn up in North Korea and negotiate the release of the journalists. She surely must be thinking ‘but that’s my job’ or ‘here we go again, I’m just the wife, my contributions mean nothing.’ I’d be very interested [...]

Video of British soldier shouting abuse at Iraqis shown at Baha Mousa inquiry

Jack Straw, Justice Secretary, took the time today in a Guardian Op-Ed to outline how Britain is trying to rid the world of mass murderers and war criminals. We must send a clear message that those responsible for these most evil of crimes will never find a safe haven in the United Kingdom. Perhaps Mr [...]

Would someone please tell Dick Cheney he is no longer the Vice-President and his opinion no longer matters? The president will address…national security, in his speech Thursday… Former Vice President Dick Cheney…is slated to give an opposing argument Thursday morning. Cheney has charged that Obama’s national security decisions have left the United States more vulnerable [...]

There is a very funny commentary in the Guardian today where the author is imagining what the first 100 days of a John McCain Presidency would have been like.  I’ve reproduced it here so you don’t have to go elsewhere, unless you want to. Day 1: Having spent the nearly three months between election day [...]

There are just a few things bothering me of late; therefore, let me dip my proverbial toe into the proverbial lake of political commentary as I have not done for a while. Explain to me, please, why an anti-racism conference has as a key speaker someone who is, by all accounts, racist himself. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

Otherwise, I think Bush’s upcoming book ‘Decision Points’ will be one of the shortest in history. Topics will include his decision to run for president, his choice of his closest advisers, the September 11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina, the forming of his stem cell research policy, [...]

There’s been some controversy here in the UK in the past 24 hours. A Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, has been denied entry to the UK. He was invited by a Lord to introduce his film Fitna. He is a far-right politician who holds extremely anti-Muslim views. His film compares Islamists to Nazis. He was informed [...]

You would think that church would be the one place you wouldn’t need a gun but, oh no, the Arkansas legislature comes to the ‘rescue’ of gun-owners everywhere: Bill To Allow Guns In Church Most people know I’m not an avid gun person. I’m not wholly against owning them but I do think many Americans are [...]

In Obama’s opening days as President he has already made two decisions I wholeheartedly agree with and commend him for doing: He has appointed former Senator George Mitchell as Middle East envoy; and He has announced the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison within a year I undertook a project during my university studies on the [...]