by Bernadette Meaden | Mar 4, 2024 | Commentary
WHY has the election of a single MP in a northern town got the political and media establishment so rattled – and why now? George Galloway has been elected as an MP several times in the past, and his election then did not elicit such a reaction. His character and...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 8, 2023 | Commentary
The rhetoric from the Conservative party around asylum seekers, immigration, and British Values is becoming increasingly sinister and alarming. Performative patriotism is being used as a distraction from life-threatening and life-shortening poverty and inequality....
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 21, 2023 | Commentary
IT IS the Conservative way to frame structural and economic problems as a failure of individuals. This allows the rich and powerful to abdicate responsibility, whilst all the pressure and blame is placed on people who have neither money nor power, and very little...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 14, 2023 | Commentary
AS David Cameron returned to government, political commentators were almost unanimous in the view that the most notable policy or event with which he was associated was Brexit. That seems to me to be a rather privileged view. Without underestimating the very damaging...
by Bernadette Meaden | Sep 14, 2023 | Commentary
THE HUMAN ONE: Paintings that explore the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, the Christ is an exhibition of the work of Jeremy Thomas, artist in residence at St. Mary’s Priory in Abergavenny. I was privileged to see this beautiful exhibition at St Anne’s church in...