by Jill Segger | Jan 27, 2024 | Commentary, Uncategorised
A CENTURY AGO this week, the first Labour government took office. This administration lasted for nine months and Labour was not really to establish itself as a parliamentary force for another couple of decades This should not surprise anyone. Power arranges matters...
by Simon Barrow | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary
THIS CHRISTMAS, in Palestine and Israel, in Sudan, in Ukraine and in other less publicised parts of the globe, darkness and violence seem overwhelming. In Bethlehem, traditionally the birthplace of Christ, seasonal celebrations have been cancelled in respect for the...
by Jill Segger | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary
“A HARD TIME we had of it”. The gripe which TS Eliot put into the mouths of Persian astronomers, travelling during the dead of winter to search for a newborn in a distant land, seems to sum up much of the modern Christmas experience in our culture. This hard time...
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 Jill Segger | Nov 27, 2023 | Commentary
REMEMBRANCE-TIDE is over and now, the space for further reflection. A time to stand back from the division and anger engendered by the former Home Secretary and to consider what it may mean in these harrowing, divisive and contentious times to remember the dead of so...
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...
