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When Margaret Thatcher said in 1975 that European Community "opens windows on the world for us that since the war have been closing" she was - I never thought I would say this - prescient and right.

The debate over the release of George W Bush's administration's "torture memos" has been characterised by vitriol and catharsis in equal measure. All sides seem to assume, however, that the use of torture was unprecedented in American history.

The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is apparently thinking about going on a state visit to India. This is unusual, as the 82-year-old monarch largely gave up on such foreign trips in the 1960s. Even before then, he only went to see allies who would be useful in the Cold War fight against the left. Thus, while he visited South Vietnam in 1959, he has never been to North Vietnam or even Thailand's neighbours, Laos and Cambodia.

An influential coterie of neo-conservatives surround the Tory leader - it's time we begin to scrutinise the extent of their influence on Conservative foreign policy.

Something strange happened to me last week. It's my job to produce hard-hitting visual satire of current events, but anything I ever say or draw about Israel - which last week's events in Gaza demanded of me -- automatically brings with it a specific kind of double jeopardy.

There is no military solution in Gaza. Every generation of Palestinians produces a new wave of militants dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Without a political solution, the Israeli Defence Force will be battling the grandchildren of the people killed in Gaza this week.

Over the course of the recent violence in Gaza, in which the fully modernized army of Israel has fought the militiamen of Hamas, around 884 Palestinians, 220 of them children, have been killed and 3800 have been injured.

In response to growing concern over the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, the Compass Management Committee has issued the following statement: "It is with growing concern that we have witnessed the tragic events unfolding in the Middle East.

Barack Obama's victory offers a real chance to rebuild the transatlantic partnership. America has decided. Barack Obama will move into the White House as the 44th President of the United States.

The future of the US Missile Defence system is now up for discussion following not only the election of Barack Obama as US President but two weekends in a row where the Czech Social Democrats have won enormous electoral victories over the governing conservatives, just as the Czech Chamber of Deputies prepares to discuss and vote on the installation of a US Missile Defence radar station.