Nations of the World unite!
The NATO leaders are meeting here in the UK – well Wales actually but let’s not go on too much about nation states. Britain is in the middle of an important and historical debate about whether Scotland should leave the…
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Sssh….listen: Education, Education, Education! Lewes kids are back at school!
What’s that noise? What noise? A solitary seagull? The postman ringing just once? The slight rustling of leaves? All of those things but something else too. The sound of silence! Yes, folks, here in the UK, the kids have gone…
It’s not racist or irreligious to condemn the guilty or to support the oppressed.
I like to see myself as one of those much sneered at people, a white, middle class and rather liberal male and I’ve mostly been proud of living in my native home here in the United Kingdom. I often…
100 years ago today, international diplomacy failed catastrophically – have we learnt the lesson yet?
One hundred years ago today, diplomacy having failed, Britain declared war on Germany. World leaders and heads of state negotiated ways of preventing war but no diplomatic solution was found. Four years later 37 million soldiers and civilians were dead.…
How will the surviving children grow up in Syria and Gaza?
These children are lucky. They are still alive. The little boy above is a Syrian and the one below is a Gaza Palestinian. We wring our hands uselessly over all the dead children killed in both countries over the years…
Has David Cameron got a plan for Europe?
It just shows I daren’t turn my back for a minute. I take a couple of weeks off for a holiday, now look what’s been happening. Poor old Dave – the Prime Minister of my country – you remember, Britain,…
Get real Vladimir Putin.
Dear President Putin, You know as well as everyone else knows. The unspeakable barbarity of that missile attack on a civilian plane, Malaysian Flight MH17 was committed by terrorists (known, for some reason, as separatists) with your armament support. Neither…