Martin In The Margins

The other day I was bemoaning the absence of Madeleine Bunting from the pages of The Guardian . Regular readers of Normblog wi...

The statement which Peter Tatchell posted yesterday, about his participation as a visibly gay man in last Saturday's anti-EDL demonstrat...

A few things that may have passed you by in the last seven days or so: As Labour ponders its leadership and its electoral prospects, Luke...

If you’d been in the San Francisco Bay Area last month, you might have been tempted to drop in on this event : Or maybe not. A closer look...

Here’s a few things you might have missed. Just when you thought the Iranian regime couldn't get any more bizarre and irrational, there...

Pakistani actress Veena Malik, in trouble with religious fundamentalists after her appearance on the Indian version of 'Big Brother...

For those of us whose political views began to be formed in the 1970s, watching last week’s coverage of the Chilean mine rescue was a stra...

Despite the extreme lapsedness of my Catholicism, and my disagreement with Benedict XVI on a number of issues including gay rights and wom...