Lord Sumption is a former member of the British Supreme Court, who received criticism recently over his remarks about the value of human life. Steve Latham He has expressed the opinion that a woman with stage 4 cancer has a life “less valuable” than others, who might benefit […]
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Cammell Laird to lay off 178 workers
Unite the Union, has branded the announcement last Friday that the Cammell Laird shipbuilding yard in Birkenhead is intending to make 178 workers redundant, as “totally unacceptable”. The yard currently has a workforce of approximately 700 workers. Despite there being a job retention scheme in place at the yard, […]
The totalitarian temptations of Covid
The US psychologist Michelle Gelfand wrote recently in The Guardian (2.2.21) about different cultural responses to the pandemic. Steve Latham She suggests that “tight” societies, with high levels of adherence to rules, reacted better to Covid than “loose” societies, which demonstrated weaker rule-keeping. This is part of her […]
Striking a chord with Ornette Coleman
Apartheid in the US is usually associated with the southern states but it was alive and well in Fort Worth, Texas when Ornette Coleman was born there in 1930. Sean Sheehan Where people lived, what bus they travelled on, school or hospital attended, all depended on skin colour. […]
No calm for Biden after his first month in office
Democrat Joe Biden served his first month as president of the United States amid the (mainly health and economic) crises, which he inherited from his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump. During this time, the president signed 31 executive orders, a record number in modern American history. That amount exceeds by […]
















