Shamima Begum cannot return home to fight her appeal the Supreme Court has ruled. In a landmark decision the Supreme Court has deemed national security as a priority over Begum. But why shouldn’t this...
For many, the 1990s are remembered as a rather grand old time for all – the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the USSR promised the possibility of a world that could...
In the West, we tend to view problems as being unique to a culture or region. Examples of this include our perception of the ‘War on Drugs’ as a Latin American problem or school...
Rearranging furniture, I moved several pairs of shoes from where they have been stored. Dust lightly coated the shoelaces. Only a year ago those shoes were worn about the town or in an office,...
It was another afternoon, dreary and lacklustre from the ceaseless rainfall, characteristic of London in autumn. All studies finished, I stopped by the local Pret en route to my accommodation for some calm reflection...
It is dark but slowly getting lighter. The early hours of the morning. At least 5 or 6 am. The atmosphere is still. Nothing much is stirring and little to no noise can be...
Politicians of all stripes often claim that ‘diversity is our strength’. The word diversity by their meaning does not refer to the diverse geography of our isles, nor the diversity of thought of our...
Covid is the latest national crisis which would normally give the government an opportunity to look active, as if, in the face of grave peril, they were achieving greatness. On the other hand, it...
One would think that world history has taught society more than enough about adopting extremist ways of thinking, not just how clearly unrealistic, illogical, and inefficient such ideologies are, but mostly how devastating they...
The Great War lives in a dark corner of our national psyche. It’s part of our founding myth – in the British book of Genesis, the Great War is Britain’s original sin. Millions of...
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