by Jill Segger | Mar 1, 2021 | Commentary
IT SEEMS THAT patriotism is the current must-have for politicians. It is not only the Conservatives who are pushing UK exceptionalism at every opportunity. The Leader of the Opposition has now embraced the Union Flag backdrop and this is annoying the left of the...
by Bernadette Meaden | Feb 8, 2021 | Commentary
THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT seems to have discovered Schrodinger’s money tree. When there are lucrative contracts to be awarded, often to party donors or highly paid consultants, the supply of money seems limitless. When it comes to funding the unglamorous but...
by Nicholas Adams | Feb 7, 2021 | Commentary
THERE IS NO right life in a world of falsehoods. This acknowledgement – one of Theodor Adorno’s best – is not a moralistic condemnation of the state of things. It is more like a statement of the facts. When one’s world is a tissue of falsehoods, intended...
by Symon Hill | Feb 6, 2021 | Commentary
RIGHT-WING SOCIAL MEDIA users have driven themselves into a frenzy of outrage over a tweet written by a Church of England priest named Jarel Robinson-Brown. The front page of yesterday’s Daily Star features calls for him to be sacked. I strongly suspect that some of...
by Jill Segger | Jan 27, 2021 | Commentary
“THERE IS TRUTH AND THERE ARE LIES – lies told for power and for profit. Each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans and especially as leaders… to defend the truth and defeat the lies.” President Joe Biden, delivering his inaugural...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 22, 2021 | Commentary
THE WORLD TODAY faces a number of existential or near-existential threats. The climate crisis (which has repercussions in every other area of life, and hits the poorest and most vulnerable hardest) is the most prominent. The current COVID pandemic, the threat of...
