Society Today Magazine

Made Redundant: is There Anything You Can Do?

Holly Brantley investigates the effects of redundancy on the ordinary person, and suggests positive ways to react to it.

Can you feel it? Shhhhh, quiet. It’s in the air looming like a bad smell. The pungent odour of joblessness is beyond lurking at every corner…it is making its presence known at rapid speed in the home of the Queen.

The now infamous credit crunch has spun a...

‘I don’t suppose I ever grew up,

I simply wanted to go out and do the adventure things that the frontier offered."

Col. John Blashfo rd -Snell co-founder of Operation Drake and Operation Raleigh

As he surveys the terrain looking for...

The Bittersweet Taste of Chocolate

James Greenwood investigates the darker side of the Chocolate industry and the steps people are taking to change it.

When we buy an everyday product such as chocolate, we don’t like to think that it ha...

Fathers for Justice

The fight goes on for Dads

By Rockyie Shielsone

Imagine a child living without a father. A little boy or girl clutching a teddy bear on the stairs waiting for their dad to walk through the front door. I...

Silver Linings

- By Martin Bell -

I have known nothing like this since I was offered a free ride many years ago on what was then the world’s biggest roller-coaster in King’s Island...

The Ergenekon Case:

Will Turkey wrest its democracy from this struggle for power?

- By Margaret Laird -

After years of suspicion, unexplained assassinations, coups, inexplicable discoveries of...

How can we find a life of personal wholeness and deeper significance?

- By Prof. Ursula King -

Uppermost in most people’s mind just now is our global economic crisis, linked to worldwide financial and material interdependence. Yet we are not ...

Society Catch

Sapna Ramnani

In this month’s Society Catch, we talk to a documentary maker with a difference about her filmmaking, her education and her inspirations.

Sapna Ramnani sees h...

Picture of Society

Poor Gordon Brown!

-By Hom Paribag

I find it surprising that one day Gordon Brown is a ‘hero’, the next he is a ‘zero.’ There was a time, for a moment last year, when he wa...

Fighting for the rights of the unemployed

- By Simon Collyer

The difficulties confronting the unemployed, not least in obtaining benefits they are entitled to in a timely manner, and in obtaining private rented ho...

Author Introduction

Rania Al-Baz speaks about her story,
forgiveness and the future

You might not immediately recognize Rania Al-Baz’s name or her face, but unfortunately, you almost certainly ...

Brazil in the New World Order

- By Jonathan Fryer -

The G20 Summit in London attracted most of its media coverage because of the demonstrations that brought large parts of the City to a halt. But far m...