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Arecent BBC Panorama programme, The Death of Kiss & Tell, demonstrated the reluctance of the media in general and the Press especially to accept that they do not have carte blanche to reveal intimate details of individuals simply because they are ri...
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Karen and Marc Adams-Jones
It was the most talked about relationship in Britain. As one of the earliest fly-on-the-wall documentaries, The Marriage captured public hearts and minds. Its stars, Karen and Marc Adams-Jones, became household names. Here, 2...
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In my view, the many voices that argue today about a crisis in contemporary democracy all converge in pointing out a similar problem: the inadequacy of knowledge on which electors make their choices, choices that suffer the pressure of media campaigns ...
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- by Hom Paribag
I don’t watch television to a huge extent. If I was an avid
television viewer, I would, perhaps, not have been able to write this
piece, or I would have let my own thoughts and acts befall obstruction
to such a point that I wou...
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- by Jonathan Fryer
As far as the headline writers of Britain’s major newspapers were concerned, the main story to come out of June’s elections to the European Parliament was the success of two candidates from the British National Party (BNP) in n...
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Many people have thought of suicide from time to time, but when a young person takes their life before it has even started, it resonates with shock and confusion. What goes through the mind of someone so young, that they cannot see a future beyond feeli...
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WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THOSE IN PERIL
- by Sally Ramage
For many years, English law saw domestic violence as a private matter. It was classified as ‘domestic’ and was not taken seriously.
The few laws that did exist to protect victims o...
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Browne Appointed Children’s Laureate
Author and illustrator Anthony Browne has been appointed the new Children’s Laureate, he takes over the from poet Michael Rosen. The post is awarded once every two years to an eminent children’s writer and illus...
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- by Margaret Laird
Revelations about MPs’ expenses by the Daily Telegraph newspaper have driven the public to a devastating outcry against the political class. Even the unveiling of the greedy, incompetent bankers did not achieve such full-blooded ...
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Ross McWhirter (1925-1975) is undoubtedly best remembered, along with his identical twin, Norris, for being one of the founding authors of the Guinness Book of Records. They were the refreshingly amateur “experts”, amongst the slick professionals th...
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Bittersweet Taste of Chocolate
Thank you for your article ‘The Bittersweet Taste of Chocolate.’ It’s quite distressing to know that these sorts of things still go on. I for one will be continuing my boycott of Nestle for the foreseeable future, and...
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Reforms Are Urgent In Every Sector
Unemployment is still rising. This shows how deep the recession is. There might be no difference to those whose ‘get on getting on’ status quo is still going. But the real terrors of it are experienced by those whos...
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The founder of charityMyBnk, stresses the importance of financial education amongst kids
When the UK broke out in credit crunch hysteria late last summer, it became quite apparent that many of us were lacking something – financial education.
Irrespon...
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Born in Jamaica, Esther Anderson studied drama at the Actor’s Studio in London. She trained in photography with Francine Winham. Esther was a 70s starlet and appeared in TV shows such as The Avengers and movies such as Genghis Khan, One More Time with S...
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Will You Be Happy Here?
As the Himalayan warrior Gurkhas achieve their dream victory of the right to settle in the UK, Joseph Reeves finds out who they are, why they want to come, and if their dream will find roots in reality.
For a brie...
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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,...
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Yours Questions Answered by Chief Executives of the RSA
Matthew Taylor
I am slightly confused by the title of the RSA, do you look after the arts or do you have a broader role?
- Naresh Patel, Wednesbury.
The RSA is not an Org...
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Poet of the Month
{xtypo_info}The winner of last month’s competition is Henry Manners from Brixton who wins Steve Jean-Philippe Toussaint – Camera published by Dalkey Archive Press for this poem entitled ‘Breeze Brings Water’
Sitting here I’m ...
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Diagnosis
-by Andrew Motion
Twenty-one hours of daylight
now it’s close to mid-summer,
and although most birds know
when to rest, posting themselves
like furtive love-notes into gaps
between stones in the harbour wall,
seagulls decide to tou...
