There can be no other reasonable explanation for the latest insane actions of

I noted with particular interest the front page coverage on the 9th July. The sentiments of anger of local Muslims at the few misguided individuals responsible for terrorist attacks, in my view are right and justified. In the same edition, there was a piece that dealt with the multi faith, multi-cultural football match. I believe that this was a fitting tribute to the victims of the 7th July bombing in London.

If I may be a little boastful, this is what Leicester does best, to recover from setbacks and mend the fractures of our common humanity. Al ...

Every year on July 4 Americans celebrate the US Declaration of Independence.  This date is portrayed by the West as the beginning of civilisation, the move from darkness into light, the dawn of a new era of rights and freedoms. The now-infamous lines of the preamble to that historic document read: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and new, and while some of its elements are uniquely Palestinian, much of it was manufactured at the behest of US-Israeli intelligence and governments.

The tensions between Fatah and Hamas are decades old. Fatah has - since the late 1960s until today - claimed a superior, if not exclusive, position at the helm of Palestinian politics. At times there seemed little margin for any other organization - be it secular, socialist or religious - to share a platform with Yasser Arafat's movement.

Libya is still in the process of paying compensation to the relatives of those who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988.

While it is difficult to put a value on anyone’s life, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s offer of $10 million dollars per passenger, $270 in total – was deemed acceptable by both George W Bush and Tony Blair.