Articles by Peter Campbell
Deputy Politics Editor (2007-09)
Peter has written 66 articles for Nouse
By Peter Campbell — September 10, 2009
This is an email from the Foreign Office. For my response, please see here.
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By Peter Campbell — September 7, 2009
While researching for my dissertation on Gaza, I ran into ‘Breaking the Silence’, a human rights group in Israel made up of former soldiers who seek to expose human rights abuses by the Israeli military. Taking testimonies of soldiers who served in Operation Cast Lead, probably better known over here as the Israeli actions during [...]
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By Peter Campbell — September 1, 2009
In March in 1988 in Burma, thousands of students took to the streets in a protest against the ruling Junta that would result in 3,000 deaths. Ko Aung was a leader of the protests. He was arrested and tortured. Two years later he received a jail sentence for his role in the protests at a [...]
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By Peter Campbell — July 9, 2009
The genius of totally immersive theatre is unlike anything else. It creates a childlike sense of exploring a dream world, and is utterly compelling.
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By Peter Campbell — June 30, 2009
David Blunkett was a controversial Home Secretary under Tony Blair. Peter Campbell meets him to talk about Parliament after the next general election and how politics needs to be changed in the future.
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By Peter Campbell — June 9, 2009
BY THE time you read this, Gordon Brown may no longer be Prime Minister. The election results from Sunday night were not only damning for the Labour Party, they were yet another nail in the coffin of Brown’s leadership, one that has been fraught with slumping opinion polls and botched opportunities.
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By Peter Campbell — May 30, 2009
The current bout of summer weather that we are experiencing will not go far to raise the hopes of Labour as Thursday approaches
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By Peter Campbell — May 12, 2009
The Damien Green affair is just one area where David Davis has found himself involved heavily in the public eye since resigning his seat in Parliament over the government’s proposed 42 day detention bill last year.
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By Peter Campbell — April 23, 2009
This is an expansion of a blog entry originally published on Peter’s other blog here. It is not normally in the nature of this blog for me to upload a post without any of my own input into the discussion. However, there are several things that have prompted me to make an exception on this [...]
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By Peter Campbell — April 22, 2009
It has been a turbulent few months for those who take an interest in the ever-complex issue of human rights and freedoms. With the proposed closure of Guantanamo Bay and the revelation of the terrible acts that took place inside comes about the tragic realisation; that the end of chapter of one of the most [...]
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By Peter Campbell — March 10, 2009
Peter Campbell talks to Tom Avery, arctic explorer, about his record breaking journey to the North and South Poles
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By Peter Campbell — March 10, 2009
Last November, the UN passed a resolution against the defamation of religion.
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By Peter Campbell — March 10, 2009
The signatures on the DISARM petition handed into Heslington Hall by the protest two weeks ago were “gathered on false grounds”, allege the founders of the anti-protest facebook group.
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By Peter Campbell — February 16, 2009
The way that the British government has handled the case of Geert Wilders only serves to publicise his message.
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By Peter Campbell — February 10, 2009
It was all going so well; each speaker had presented their case, debate had been aroused, feelings stirred, and everyone agreed on the necessity of discussion. Then the bombshell struck.
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It Felt Like a Kiss
Blunkett: “A new type of politics”
Number worries for Labour
To the ends of the earth
Protests spark counter campaign on campus
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