Seventy-five years have passed since the nuclear catastrophe. And now is the time to revisit history and its tragedy: between 6th and 9th August 1945, the United States launched its most devastating device on two Japanese islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debacle left more than 135,000 dead, 40,000 injured and […]
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The tools of media manipulation
Truth and trust are essential ingredients of all co-operation, be it family, friends, neighbours, communities, business, commerce right up to governments and world trade. In a free society many of us take for granted that the information we receive as being true and fair. It’s a human right not available to all and it is a precious but often taken for granted privilege.
And Ecuador became a living hell
This country which is now suffering an assault by criminal gangs that have subjected it to horrors, was a peaceful and beautiful country until recently. Today, it is being bled to death by violence, organised crime and drug trafficking. As a matter of fact, beyond poverty and unemployment, the most […]
Physical and moral violence of religious homophobia
In their own communities LGBT Muslims encounter a mentality not uncommon in other sectors of British society: that homosexuality is an immoral act, and an object of ridicule. Such views, based on a reading of the Qur’an prohibiting sexual acts between two men, are regularly aired in mosques. Violence is […]
The pandemic made us worse
Following the lengthy lockdown forced upon us by Covid-19, which many have opted to continue, something in us changed – and social networks have a lot to answer for. We can no longer bear to live with difference, plurality or diversity. The pandemic forced us to isolate and coincided with […]
















