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Mark Reckless, left, is bidding to join fellow Tory defector Douglas Carswell, right, as a member of parliament for Ukip. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Rochester by-election: more Ukip woes for all?

Alastair Stephens

Yasser Arafat pictured in 1970, at a ceremony marking the end of a military training program in Damascus.AFP/Getty Images

Yasser Arafat and the struggle for Palestine

Warmongers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, and John Major parade wearing their red poppies on Remembrance Sunday 2014

Failing the red poppy loyalty test

Valencia, Venezuela: supporters of acting president Nicolás Maduro attend a campaign rally Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

Venezuela: revolution and progress versus reaction and empire

Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

Tower Hamlets: it’s the establishment versus the people

Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

Journalism, whistleblowing and the security state

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil acknowledged the crowd during her acceptance speech at a hotel in Brasília on Sunday. Credit Eraldo Peres/Associated Press

Brazil: a victory and a challenge

the coffin of Warrant Officer Ian Fisher, from the 3rd battalion, the Mercian Regiment, who died in a suicide blast in Afghanistan, is carried from Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire

Afghanistan: why Britain’s longest modern war is a failure

Visitors walk past the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. The grounds and lawn of Parliament Hill reopened Friday night following the shootings at the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Justin Tang) (The Associated Press)

Canada: after Ottawa shooting, dissent is more critical than ever

Derrick O’Keefe

David Cameron wearing the red poppy symbol whilst on a mission to hawk military hardware to middle eastern despots.

Wear a white poppy to honour the dead on Remembrance Day

Dilma Rouseff and Aécio Neves

What is at stake at the Brazilian polls?