Zimbabwe: black and white?
The average European perception of Africa is of a continent characterised by civil wars, corruption and disease. This view has recently been strengthened by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. His country's rule of law has been broken down and now lies perched on the brink of civil war. Events leading to the sorry state are simple: the so-called war veterans, some of whom in reality are hooligans, who at the time of the liberation struggle were little more than children, have invaded white-owned farms, beaten the farmers and left some dead. The Zimbabweans want their land back. It was stolen from the them by the white British settlers. And they want the British Government to compensate the white farmers since the British Government did not compensate the blacks when they stole the land from them. The Zimbabwean Government feels that it has no obligation to compensate them for they are the unfortunate victims of British imperialism. Britain has refused Zimbabwe's requests, arguing that no country will take decisions which bind them....
Features: I spy with my London Eye
The London Eye is an engineering masterpiece. It is a stroke of genius which leaves its smaller and infinitely less inspiring neighbour, the Millennium Dome, in a conceptual and commercial shadow. It seems a pity, therefore, that my recent experience of the wheel contained less of the excitement of the Mile High Club and more of the tedium of the mile long queue....
Features: Is Clinton coming back to Oxford?
Following speculation in a certain quality broadsheet regarding Bill Clinton's assertion that he might consider returning to Oxford in a teaching capacity, sources close to the President have now disclosed that such an event is no longer hypothetical possibility but a fact to be reckoned with.
Features: Things can only get better. . .
Leo Blair might only have been born last Saturday, but it could be less than a year before his father is out-kissing his contemporaries. Many pundits had speculated - at least until the Prime Minister's recent slide in the opinion polls - that Tony Blair would choose to call the next general election a year before time, on 1st May 2001....