An empire is toppling. Years of brutal oppression, divide-and-rule, are culminating in terror and a tragedy of biblical proportions. Param Singh mounts his horse. Looping the reins across a wrist, he turns and bends down to lift his little daughter from his wife’s hands, the child’s arms and legs already waving with excitement, loving these […]
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#WeRemember
Some are strangled, some are suffocated, and some are taken abroad and killed. On July 14th we remember Britain’s lost women #DayOfMemory. Those who have died in so-called honour killings. This Day of Memory is held on the birthday of Shafilea Ahmed, a young British-Pakistani girl, who was murdered by her parents when she […]
Charles and the Hollow Crown
In the merry month of May, we were treated to magnificence and majesty, pomp and pageantry, golden coaches and glittering crowns. Alongside, peaceful protestors being arrested, families struggling to pay their bills and children going hungry. Monarchies are based on hierarchy, and the crowning of Charles III put Britain’s class divide on full display. “The […]
Reprising: Divide and Rule
“I’ll tell you what I want, What I really, really want,” sang the Spice Girls many years ago. A message the people of England have been trying to impress upon their government through strikes by nurses, railway staff, teachers and many other workers. What people ‘really, really want’ are not the government’s fabricated culture wars, […]
Death and Ideology
Health is wealth. Few of us win the lottery or land million-pound deals, but at some point in our lives, most of us need the services of doctors, nurses and care workers, whether for ourselves or family members. Being healthy and having access to appropriate healthcare as necessary, allows us to have fulfilling and productive […]
Wisdom and Weighing Scales
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:” must be one of the most famous lines in the world, known by young and old, encapsulating the nature of dilemma, the weighing of imperfect solutions and consequences. Decision-making falls upon us all at some time or the other, as citizens and individuals. The […]
Death on the Streets
‘Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.’ (Margaret Atwood) On the night of 26th June 2022, Zara Aleena, 35 years old, is walking home along a main road in Ilford, East London. She is brutally attacked by a man […]
Hunger, Scarcity and Abundance.
In a world where we have war, plague, school shootings, more doom and gloom scenarios than we can comprehend, it’s no longer just a preacher on the high street threatening apocalypse, but many an expert and pundit. Food insecurity has raised its dreaded head. Not just caused by the war in Ukraine, the climate […]