Thursday, 3 September 2015

Refugee crisis: if only we helped as much to make peace as to make war...

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Have you seen the film Charlie Wilson’s War ?  It may not be Aaron Sorkin’s best screenplay, but his work ’s so good that even a minor pie...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Being principled is great. In the right cause

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It’s not enough to have a conscience. We all tend to respect honesty and principle in politicians. Well, we don’t get that much opportunit...
Sunday, 30 August 2015

Jeremy Corbyn: I may have got him wrong. So I changed my mind

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When you've got something wrong, you just have to admit it and put it right. For weeks, I believed that electing Jeremy Corbyn Labour ...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

Not easy to reach full womanhood

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The transition to womanhood’s never easy. Especially for women. But it isn’t altogether smooth even if you’re of the canine persuasion. Our ...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

The powerless need a champion. The right champion.

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Today in Britain we live with a government which has held wages down for the powerless while presiding over a huge explosion in “earnings” f...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

Misty's Diary: Call that a jump?

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Misty and his diary again, talking about life with Luci, and jumping. August 2015 Well, life’s certainly b...
Thursday, 20 August 2015

Immigration: time to get the question right

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In 1951, Rosalind Franklin took a series of pictures of DNA which a colleague, J.D. Bernal, described as “amongst the most beautiful X-ray p...