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By Alexei Talimonov.
Ukrainian born Alexei Talimonov is a successful and award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines since 1978 in the UK, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Canada Germany, Italy, Iran, China a...
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Ban the Infidels
The UN Human Rights Council has passed a resolution against religious defamation. Backed by Pakistan and Islamic countries, the resolution argues that criticism of religion is a violation of the rights of believers and encourages physica...
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Yours Questions Answered by
Julian Friedmann
Has the Value of Book Writing Gone?
You have been in the publishing business for a long time. What changes have you seen that worry you?
- Luke Fowles, Harrogate
The changes over forty years a...
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Poet of the Month
{xtypo_info}The winner of last month’s competition is Rosusa Mansuran from Kent who wins Steve Lukes - Moral Relativism published by profile books for this poem entitled
‘A Tangle Skein’
I see a tangle that is my life
It lies...
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Nice and Inclusive
This is in response to your article We’re Back! I have a disability, and am a passionate supporter of the inclusion of disabled people into any area of mainstream society. So, naturally, I love anything inclusive. You have my sincer...
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Political Thinking Must Change!
We live in a world where political ideologies don’t exist. The isms of politics died down a long time ago. Today people in society care for deeper and far greater issues of humanity, such as the environment, social progr...
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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 has been tarnished by child slave labour and exploi...
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Will Turkey wrest its democracy from this struggle for power?
- By Margaret Laird -
After years of suspicion, unexplained assassinations, coups, inexplicable discoveries of arms caches and accusation and counter-accusation, the Turkish government has,...
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- 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 housing, are key issues that the Justice Organisation is campaigning about.
The Ju...
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Prizes With Bumpy Rides
With hundreds of publishers flaunting their wares, the annual London Book Fair acts as the engine room of the industry in the UK. Over 23,000 attendees from 109 countries took part in the three day fair this year and we thought it...
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Licester Square
-by Guillermo Carnero
In the tense knot of your blouse
your heels double their beat
never once transforming the ice-cream’s sphere
that you gulp down, cheerfully, with a wink
You’ve brought me to this park where love is sifte...
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A Writers Reflection
In the first hours of 2004, there was snow falling over the city where I still lingered. Leeds had been my home for the last four years, and it would be another eighteen months before I wrenched myself away. There were parties up ...
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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 ...
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- 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 Ohio. Except that then the trip was voluntary. Now it isn’t...
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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 know someone who shares elements of her extraordinarily sad story. In ess...
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- 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 more significant, in many ways, was the fact that the meeting was a manifestation o...
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Will it Breach Right to a Fair Trial?
- By Sally Ramage -
It is widely known that that United Kingdom government practices covert as well as overt surveillance over the internet for the country’s security and it is also widely known that th...
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I simply wanted to go out and do the adventure things that the frontier offered."
Col. John Blashford -Snell co-founder of Operation Drake and Operation Raleigh
As he surveys the terrain looking for his ‘interrogators’ Colonel John Blas...
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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. In a broken household a child will spend many nig...
