Matt Carr

The other day an acquaintance of mine told me that she had just begun working for the Citizens Advice Bureau. One of her first calls was from a cancer patient who has become incontinent because of the treatment she was receiving. The reason for the call was because the patient...

After today's terrible testimony, many people will probably have had about as much as they can stomach of Anders Behring Breivik. Even the sight of him is disturbing. Seeing close up on television, he has the grotesque physical presence of a horror film villain or a Hollywood serial...

The audacious attacks carried out by the Taliban in the heart of Kabul have once again exposed the increasingly glaring discrepancy between the official version of the Afghan war and the actual situation on the ground.

For the last year, US and British military commanders have painted an...

The news that a British helicopter may have been involved in the 'left-to-die' boat on which 63 refugees drowned and starved to death fleeing Libya for Lampedusa last year is shameful, but not at all surprising.

In May last year William Hague rejected calls from the...

Bolstered by the runaway success of The Hunger Games, dystopia seems to be becoming a new cultural sub-genre amongst the young. Bookshop windows now display a whole range of bleak teenage fictional future scenarios, involving genetic engineering, pervasive surveillance and police states.

You could attribute this trend to skilful opportunist...

For the last 11 years I've been coming to the National Union of Teachers Easter Conference, which my partner attends as a union delegate, so you could say that I'm a little biased when it comes to my assessment of these events.

I only attend the conference as a sporadic...

Hundreds of Greeks gathered yesterday in an Athens cemetery for the funeral of Dimitris Chrystoulas, the 77-year-old pensioner who shot himself in Syntagma Square on Wednesday in front of the Greek parliament.

In a suicide note found at his apartment, the retired pharmacist wrote:

The...

The Coalition has not exactly covered itself in glory through its proposal to allow GCHQ to monitor all email, Skype and social media conversations in realtime. Under the proposed legislation, security officials will be able to know who is sending a message and who is receiving it, and the time...