Click here for Anti-Semitism in the UK: 1. 75 years after Auschwitz… Now I’m horribly aware of the hot water I’m tiptoeing into. So let
I started working on this short series of posts while sitting in Frankfurt airport, en route to Ukraine. Just in front of me is a
Does the legacy of a heroic struggle for justice cover over a multitude of sins?
Or does the iconic hero’s fatal flaw render him and, perhaps even his legacy, leprous?
Is it ‘one strike and you’re out’ or might the twitteratti just possibly permit nuance and, dare I say it, complexity?
We are so much more aware of the sociological contexts for the public square, these days – or if we’re not, we should be, because they will
There’s no escaping binaries these days. Every conceivable detail of modern life seems to be reduced to digital 1s and 0s. As computing technology encroaches
At last year’s launch of veteran travel writer Dervla Murphy’s remarkable book, A Month by the Sea – Encounters in Gaza, she made a simple
Elizabeth Berridge, until very recently, was the youngest woman in the House of Lords, the UK’s upper house in Parliament. Raised to the peerage in the
Dan at Redeeming Sound asked me to write something for his blog. So naturally, I decided to write on U2… They’ve had a new album
While I was in the States at the end of last month, I had an afternoon to kill in Philadelphia. So the completely obvious thing
Nearly 10 years ago, a dear friend of mine was addressing a gathering of Ugandan MPs in the Parliament building in Kampala (around the 40th
It is a truism to say that the media is influential in politics. But there is no doubting that its power to mesmerize and acclimatize
If there is a point to Barack Obama becoming US President – and let’s face it, how can we ever reduce anyone’s life to having