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The naked protest

The naked protest

Animal rights group Peta are staging a naked protest at the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Here Bruce Friedrich, the organisation's vice president makes the case against the corrida

In europe

One man on a rock

  • By Tom Quinn
  • 02 July

The curious tale of Stuart Hill who has declared his remote island in the Shetlands to be independent of the United Kingdom - much to the irritation of his local MP

The bare life of immigrants

  • By Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
  • 30 June

A new EU directive allows tougher action against illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Western citizens are able to work around the globe. Iselin Åsedotter Strønen detects an irony

Nation versus state

  • By Kirsty Hughes
  • 26 June

This is a fight not between secularism and Islamism in Turkey, but between old and new power elites, between nationalism and democracy

Unworldly splendour

  • By William Skidelsky
  • 26 June

The medieval cathedrals of France were an attempt to re-create the mind of God

A future for the Chagossians

  • By Sean Carey
  • 23 June

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders

Sending money home

  • By Enrique Mendizabal
  • 20 June

The vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect

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Workers of the world unite

Workers of the world unite

The world's first truly international trades union looks set to be unveiled with a membership of more than 3m as the labour movement goes global

More in europe

Behind the big blue

  • By Owen Van Spall
  • 19 June 2008

Power v poverty

  • By Duncan Green
  • 19 June 2008

The striker who snubbed Hitler

  • By Robin Stummer
  • 12 June 2008

What England?

  • By Hunter Davies
  • 12 June 2008

Rebuilding Europe

  • By Peter Calvocoressi
  • 12 June 2008

Factory living

  • By Tom Blass
  • 05 June 2008

Is Italy flirting with fascism?

  • By Donald Sassoon
  • 22 May 2008

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