COMMENTARY

  JOANNA GRAY “No, I don’t read, I’m dyslexic.” “Read? I can’t, I’m dyslexic.” “I’m dyslexic so I don’t read.” After working with school age children in various capacities for four years I have lost […]

Image by Alpha India   TOM ARMSTRONG It’s very hard to get people interested in merchant shipping. In my experience it takes three things to generate even a short bit of attention: pollution (always catastrophic, […]

  CAROLINE FFISKE Late last year, the Department of Health and Social Care updated the official documents for reporting the details surrounding the death of a child. What happened shows how there is no sacrosanct […]

PETER HARRIS As I am sure you know, it was International Women’s Day just over a week ago. The idea of having a day to protest for women’s rights began with the American Socialist Party in 1909. […]

Alexander Bowen: We have not merely let foxes into the hen houses – we’ve put the foxes in charge ALEXANDER BOWEN Alexander Bowen is an MPP-MIA student at SciencesPo Paris and St Gallen specialising in […]

  SALLUST You might have thought that some of Britain’s most sacred cultural items might be sacrosanct and immune from the wave of ‘decolonising’ hysteria and self-loathing that has seeped across the nation like mustard […]

Alas poor Albion Albion Awake! – Image by Alpha India   FREDERICA I remember hearing Britain referred to as “Albion” in my youth. It somehow struck a chord in me, and I prefer now to […]

ROGER WATSON IT IS FIVE years since the World Health Organization (WHO), having changed its tune considerably about the nature of the mystery viral illness in China, declared a ‘pandemic’. But if Global Health Now […]

WINTER WATCH If you read George Orwell’s fictional novel “1984” when you were young, now is an opportune time for a second look. It’s the language of “1984” that’s of particular use. The book is […]