Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Secret Kill List
May 30th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Raul Hilberg on the Holocaust
May 17th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Author of The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg is arguably the leading scholar on the Holocaust. Here he gives a short lecture, asking the question, “who did it?”
Gore Vidal on Italo Calvino
May 14th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Gore Vidal sat down with Riz Khan to discuss Italo Calvino, whom Vidal describes as “the only great writer of my time”. Vidal’s essay on Calvino is available here.
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Stephen Walt: Iraq, Iran and the Israel Lobby
May 11th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Harvard Professor Stephen Walt giving his recent Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture, titled Deja Vu All Over Again?: Iraq, Iran and the Israel Lobby.
Ha-Joon Chang and John Lanchester interview
May 11th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Ha-Joon Chang talks economics with John Lanchester.
Panorama – Homs: Journey into Hell
March 14th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
In a follow up to Panorama’s Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution they have produced Homs: Journey into Hell.
Paul Wood charts the rise and brutal suppression of the uprising in the Syrian city of Homs. What started with hope of revolution now sees refugees fleeing to escape retribution.
Arundhati Roy: Capitalism – A Ghost Story
March 12th, 2012 § 1 Comment
This is a recording of a speech made by Arundhati Roy as a part of the 4th series of lecture under the Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Trust Lecture that was delivered on the 20th of January, 2012 at Xaviers college, Mumbai, India.
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Privatisation of the Police Force
March 4th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie poke fun at the privatisation of the police force.
Accoding to The Guardian, West Midlands and Surrey police are offering a £1.5bn contract under which private firms may investigate crime and detain suspects:
The joint West Midlands/Surrey “transformation” programme, which has strong backing from the Home Office, looks set to completely redraw the accepted boundaries between public and private and the definition of frontline and back-office policing.
The programme has the potential to become the main vehicle for outsourcing police services in England and Wales. It has been pioneered by the West Midlands chief constable, Chris Sims, and Mark Rowley, who has just moved to the Metropolitan police from the post of Surrey chief constable. The pair lead on these matters for the Association of Chief Police Officers.
The breathtaking list of policing activities up for grabs includes investigating crimes, detaining suspects, developing cases, responding to and investigating incidents, supporting victims and witnesses, managing high-risk individuals, patrolling neighbourhoods, managing intelligence, managing engagement with the public, as well as more traditional back-office functions, such as managing forensics, providing legal services, managing the vehicle fleet, finance and human resources.
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American Masters: Education of Gore Vidal
January 13th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
