by Mark Woods | Mar 29, 2011 | Opinion
British forces are in action in Libya in a campaign that has the potential to be hugely divisive. No war has ever had the universal support of the population, and one of the burdens of government is that our leaders have to make unpopular decisions. But the broad...
by Mark Woods | Mar 24, 2011 | Opinion
The enduring image of the Japanese earthquake and the tsunami that followed – not including the real possibility of a nuclear catastrophe – may be the acres of devastation left by the great wave. Houses, cars, boats, trains. All the apparatus of ordinary existence are...
by Mark Woods | Mar 8, 2011 | Opinion
The horrific events unfolding in Libya have gripped the world. And they are horrific, at least as much as they are inspirational. One cannot help but admire the courage of people who are prepared to face down a tyrant’s soldiers with little more than the moral...
by Mark Woods | Mar 3, 2011 | Opinion
The extraordinary events of the last month have taken the most experienced Middle East watchers by surprise. The unthinkable is at least thinkable: the murderous regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya is tottering and may fall, and who knows what else may follow, or...
by Mark Woods | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
Clare Nonhebel writes movingly in the latest edition of the Baptist Times about how she came to correspond with a prisoner on death row in an American prison. Romell Broom grew up with every imaginable disadvantage. Still, his crimes were bad enough, and he was...
