Category: Rediscovering Community

In the time of cholera, which – despite Gabriel Garcia Marquez – I take to be the 1830s, there were riots in the back streets…

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I am a university lecturer; I feel lucky and I really love my job. I run an interdisciplinary degree for mature students, returning to study,…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on how policy is made in today’s world, and the pressures to which it is subject. I…

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Which example would you nominate for Tickbox of the Year – what I called in the Evening Standard yesterday, examples of “the stupidification and hollowing…

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Europe’s borders are under attack.  On Sunday 1 March, young bearded men shouting “Allah Akbar! “, carrying a tree trunk as a ram, tried to…

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“It’s not fair!” This is one of the most common utterances to come out of young children’s mouths. A sense of fairness seems somehow ingrained…

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I have an unproven and probably unprovable theory about new movements – political or otherwise – which is that they usually involve reaching back into…

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It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…

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Listen for it….listen for it = and there it is. Another Labour MP/sad former Labour MP/Labour activist/outrider cum Grauniad rent-a-hack bemoaning the general election defeat…

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Some of the stuff Trump has done in the Middle East is shameful – “The deal of the century” – for Israel, abandonment of the…

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It has only been a fortnight since the publication of my Tickbox book, but the trickle of background information that was beginning to emerge when…

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Benyamin Netanyahu’s visit to his American ally on 27 and 28 January 2020 brings with it a great paradox. In seventy-two years of history, never…

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