Perhaps I was naïve, believing in goodness, kindness, the essential decency and fairness of humanity and its ability to create great works of art, engage with issues of justice and morality, develop science and medicine, practise love and sacrifice, and being open to feelings of transcendence in the presence of truth and beauty. Israel’s war […]
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IWD 2024 – War and Women
Whilst International Women’s Day aims to strengthen women’s dignity and worth, women caught in conflicts across the globe are subjected to barbaric, inhuman abuses. This blog, being written against the backdrop of the punitive war being waged by the Israeli state in Gaza, will focus on the unconscionable transgressions against women during wars. The wars […]
Israel’s Brutal Harvest
Injustice provides hollow foundations for the establishment of a state. Israel has always had the choice to pursue peaceful, social and economic pathways to live in some kind of amity with those they had dispossessed, no matter how contentious, bitter or complex the process. Israel could have chosen to engage in bridge-building, conciliation, compromise, co-existence, […]
“Nowhere Safe & Hospitals are a Warzone”
I do not believe in violence. Not as an instrument of justice, nor as a form of strength. Violence has plagued our planet for centuries and created every ill known to humanity: generational suffering, enmity, torture, hostility, racism, poverty, death, destruction, hunger, starvation, disease, homelessness, refugeehood and much more. Violence is not based on reason […]
The Question – a Partition story inspired by true events
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 […]
#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, […]