Short-term holding facilities (STHFs), where arrivals are very often sent immediately, are reported to be in a particularly shameful state, and those confined in them are among the most forgotten…

Caroline Playne was a campaigner and independent thinker who worked tirelessly for peace throughout her life.

How will the left vote in the May 2022 local elections? If Labour does badly in the forthcoming contests, will Keir Starmer take any notice? He certainly should, because in…

Xenos, an ancient Greek word, can be translated as ‘stranger’ or ‘guest’ but, combined with the word ‘phobia’, it means fear of strangers. In Swahili the word mgeni is similar…

With thanks to Nancy Wildwood who has contributed this article. How many of us have heard the name ‘Bram Fischer’, a man who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in…

Money wasted during the pandemic The NHS has been starved of funds, but huge sums have been squandered, wasted, and paid out unnecessarily.  Some of the waste and extravagant spending…

THIS is the first of a series of articles on people, individuals or groups, who have inspired us.  I was greatly influenced by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. His speeches, publications,…

Christmas is extraordinary. It is full of contradictions and confusions. There are some who claim it as the Festival of Yuletide, others the Birth of the Sun and, for Christians,…

Not long ago I shared someone’s post on Twitter about the untold suffering in Yemen showing a picture of a starving child. I asked why we seem to turn our…

The arms trade profits from war; that’s a fact. The weapons which we trade are specifically manufactured to kill, torture and maim and are often bought by corrupt, brutal regimes…