Jonathan Miller
Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
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Jonathan Miller
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Tom Clarke
Climate change: can the UN break the deadlock?
Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to take to the streets of Manhattan to call for global action on climate change. But will it translate to action in the corridors of the UN?
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UN's Ban Ki-Moon is right to fear for Syria's future
When the UN Secretary General describes what is already a desperate situation in Syria as “a grim harbinger of worse to come”, you know things are bad.
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FactCheck: Jamie Oliver’s super-sized obesity claims
As leaders of the world convene in New York for the UN’s annual assembly, Jamie has thrown his Food Revolution under their noses. But is he right that obesity kills more than under-nutrition? FactCheck investigates.
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Will Sri Lanka cooperate with the UN's experts?
As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon talks about the establishment of a Commission of Experts to advise on alleged violations of human rights in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Jonathan Miller notes that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity.