Buchi Emecheta, orphaned as a child, came to London from Nigeria in the 1960s. When her marriage broke down she was only 22 and with five young children to bring up as a single mother. She died in 2017. Sean Sheehan The difficulties she faced in London are […]
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A new political reality?
Materialism, physicalism, purposeless, as envisaged by Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, or Daniel Dennett, need not have the last word. It is not Social Darwinism of the violent superman, but the conscious voluntary taking on of empathy and connection that is crucial. Nigel Pocock There seems to […]
Acceptance from self and from others
Tony Attwood is a renowned world expert on Autism and Asperger Syndrome. He travels the world teaching professionals how to encourage people with these conditions. Steve Latham His is not an ivory tower specialisation, however, since his own son has Aspergers. His advice comes, then, with the added […]
Internal armed conflict in Colombia: theory vs. facts
This concept has become meaningless and no longer serves to describe what is really happening in the Colombia of the post-Havana agreement. Germán Ayala Osorio* The recognition of the internal armed conflict in Colombia imposed on its armed participants (paramilitaries, guerillas and state forces) some ethical-political conditions through […]
Family court collusion with violent fathers
There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. New research by Elizabeth Dalgarno reveals this, and confirms the years of collective self-help and campaigning carried out by Legal Action for Women (LAW) with mothers attacked for trying […]
















