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 Savitri Hensman | Feb 5, 2024 | Commentary
THE ISRAELI STATE has continued to kill, injure and displace civilians on a major scale. Its international military backers, primarily the US government but also that of the UK and others, kept calling for restraint. Yet – long after it was clear such calls would not...
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....