The war in Yemen, “the forgotten war”, has almost never been news. The desperate suffering of the people in Yemen, the brutality of the Saudi Arabian airstrikes and the complicity…

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…

Grenfell - 72 residents died, the oldest an 84-year-old and the youngest an unborn baby. One of the many shocking statistics is that 40% of the disabled residents in Grenfell…

Will the renewed interest in making ethical purchases become lost as more and more of us are now preoccupied with daily coping, as we struggle with rising costs, costs which…

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…