When the Nobel Peace Prize is presented next week, the stage will be empty and echoing. The winner -- Liu Xiaobo -- will be 5,000 miles away, in a filthy cell, alone, for the crime of trying to defend his fellow Chinese citizens.
Have we started to see zombies all around us because -- on some distant, allegorical, semi-serious level -- we fear we have become more like zombies ourselves?
There is a squalid little irony when you see people who are literally bombing innocent civilians every day feverishly accuse a man who has never touched a weapon in his life of being "covered in blood."
There was a time when we left the question of banking to nerds, wonks, and lobbyists. You can leave this question to them again, if you want -- but the price could be your job and your home.
You can watch my first (and last) ever stand-up comedy gig here. It's the true story of the time the Dalai Lama called me fat....
If you block the right to protest, you block the path to progress. You are left instead at the whim of an elite, whose priority is tax cuts for themselves, paid for with spending cuts for the poor.
In the endless whirr of 24/7 corporate news, the people who actually make a difference are often trampled in the stampede to the next forgettable news-nugget like Lady Gaga's meat-dress. Let's look at five people who deserved more attention.
The harm done to Britain in 2010 did not have to happen. It was David Cameron's choice to ignore the world's most distinguished economists and cut spending in the midst of economic collapse.
