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...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 20, 2021 | Commentary
Green Burial by Martin Hayden. Published by The Garlic Press. Price £10. Many years ago I spoke to a veteran activist in the peace movement. When I asked him why he did what he did, he said, “It’s my love song to the world.” This book feels very much like a love song...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 18, 2021 | Commentary
TODAY is Martin Luther King Jr Day in the United States and across the world. The annual event, which marks the civil rights leader’s birthday on 15 January 1929 (and is observed on the third Monday of January each year), has added poignancy in 2021, with the...
by Savitri Hensman | Jan 15, 2021 | Commentary
AS UNITED STATES lawmakers were meeting on 6 January 2021 to ratify the results of the presidential election, far-right supporters of the US president, Donald Trump, stormed the building. He had refused to accept his defeat, urging them in a speech to “walk down to...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 15, 2021 | Commentary
ALMOST EVERY CHILD under 11 in the UK has been born under a Conservative government. There are books to be written about how multiple Conservative policies have increased and entrenched disadvantage for children over the past decade, but as we enter a third national...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 15, 2021 | Commentary
WHILE far-right author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas falsely invokes anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (left) to “stop the steal” in the US, genuine Bonhoeffer scholars are calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office. The executive board of the...
