Katherine Butler



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Full name: Katherine Butler

Area of interest: Foreign affairs

Journals: The Independent

Email: [mailto:k.butler@independent.co.uk k.butler@independent.co.uk]

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Career: The Independent: assistant comment editor

Current position/role: Foreign editor (since March 2007)


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Articles: 2010

 * with a strongly held view'' - You can't help wondering what happened. What was it that provoked somebody to go online and post a review urging others to avoid Detroit's Westin Book Cadillac Hotel "unless you and your family actually enjoy sharing your evening with the local prostitutes" - 29th October
 * made mothers so superior? - Commentators ...'' - ... Have you got kids? Careful how you phrase it if the answer is no and you're a woman, especially one whose biological clock has been ticking - 16th October
 * looks like a victory for Iran – but we've been here before'' - Is this a positive step towards averting a global crisis or a cynical ploy? - 18th May
 * with nothing to lose, or tyrants?'' - Should the outside world think about doing business with the Taliban? - 28th January



Articles: 2009

 * has rarely been less likely to do favours for Western powers'' - David Miliband sounded positive as he expressed the hope last night that the detention of a yachtload of British sailors by Iran would be "resolved swiftly" - 1st December
 * Russia and the missile chess game'' - Did Barack Obama have a chat with Karpov and Kasparov before he announced last week that he was abandoning Bush-era plans to locate a missile shield in Eastern Europe? - 25th September
 * terrible price of freedom'' - Sultan Munadi thought he had already seen the darkest hours. In a now poignant last entry to his New York Times blog, the 34-year-old Afghan "fixer" explained that no matter how bad things are now in Afghanistan, under the Taliban they were worse - 10th September
 * women now face new dangers'' - One reason for the widespread public support for the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was genuine revulsion at the treatment of Afghan women under the Taliban - 7th September
 * 'Suffragettes' of Iran demand to be heard'' - If what unfolded over the past week was a Tehran "spring", then it was, at least partly, driven by the pent-up despair of women, who more than any other group, have waited in vain for more than 30 years to get back their social and political rights - 13th June (See: Iran: summary)
 * It will take more than poetry to heal the Iranian wounds - Why has Iran apparently dismissed Barack Obama's call for "a new beginning"? - 23rd March
 * So how do we know the aid stays in the right hands? - The BBC's objection to broadcasting the disputed Gaza aid appeal appears, at least partly, to be based on the fear that Gaza aid cannot be delivered effectively - 26th January



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