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The Cost of Old Age – What Are We Willing to Afford?

- by Margaret Laird We are all afraid of old age and death. We all fear dwindling wretchedly in institutional “care.” The “postcode lottery” arouses passionate hatred of parsimonious local councils and underlines inequitable regional differenc...
A Helping Hand

Since being the first chairman of UK Amnesty International and founding the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture, Helen Bamber has continued her work through her own foundation. Here, she tells Society Today why she is so driven to help ot...
Author Introduction

- David de l’Avern Last Post For The Winds of Freedom I came aware politically, so to speak, in the early nineties, on the day that I walked into town hoping to re-train under a much publicised government programme. It was for me a bitter rev...
Inside the Expenses Office:

How the ‘Honourable’ Gentlemen and Women have Changed with the Times Walking into the House of Commons for the first time was an occasion to be remembered. Never in my wildest dreams had I ever thought I would be entering this famous building, an...
Gently Does It: The Road to Reforming Parliament

- by Iain McWhirter We seem to have been talking about the reform of our Parliament for ages without the hint of a result anytime soon. It started with the disqualification of many previous members of the House of Lords and has reached a new climax wi...
No Sex Please, We’re Chinese:

The Blocking of Internet Pornography - by Sally Ramage There is no one set of laws that apply to the distribution, purchase or possession of Internet pornography. From July 2009, all personal computers sold in China were going to have software...
Tea and Sympathy in Tehran

- by Jonathan Fryer Many large cities have contrasting poles. Think of the East and West Ends of London, or North and South Tehran. They are different worlds, not just economically but socially and politically, too. Their inhabitants may converge in t...
“It Was Man That Stepped on the Moon, not Neil Armstrong.”

- Theo Kamecke Commissioned by NASA in 1969, six weeks before the Apollo 11 mission took place, to capture everything on film in order to create a documentary time capsule, Theo Kamecke was the only civilian allowed anywhere near NASA during this period ...
Why Do Ethnic Minorities Lose Out in the Labour Market?

In modern societies it is hoped that individuals are socially and economically rewarded on the basis of their educational achievements and not on the basis of their sex, ethnicity, age or cultural orientation. That is, whether you are a man or a woman,...
Political Blogger

Paul Burgin In the last year, blogging has come into its own as a force in politics. Unrestrained by our litigious culture and not tied to the traditionally convenient relationship between Westminster and Fleet Street, the first scalp of the new medium w...
News in Brief

New Research Reveals Successful Use of Radar in Protecting Bats From Collisions With Wind Turbines University of Aberdeen scientists Barry Nicholls and Paul Racey have carried out a piece of research in an attempt to reduce the mortality rates of bats...
Society Today Competition

Poet of the Month {xtypo_info}The winner of last month’s competition is Sophie Grey from Cambridge who wins Richard Wilson – Don’t Get Fooled Again: published by Icon Books UK for this poem entitled ’Spotlight’ Inky blue, this dark of night T...
Society Today Q&A

{xtypo_quote_right} Ask your questions to Bob Crow Leader of the RMT Born in Wapping, London, on 13 June 1961, Bob Crow first joined London Underground as a 16- year-old track worker in 1978. In 1979, he joined the National Union of Railwaymen an...
Society Cartoon

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, It...
Letters to the Editor

Cutting Edge I have just reviewed the new issue and I am more than impressed. Your articulation and poignancy inspires and excites me. This is truly a magazine on the cutting edge of time. I think the time is right for you to forge ahead and take a rol...
What We’re Saying

Swine Flu: This Is Important! What is the dimension of life in society that we become helpless when a pandemic like swine flu lurks to eat us away? In the history of pandemics, this is relatively normal. We get it, then we cure it and get it over with....
Picture Editorial

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The Root of the Problem: Where to find it?

Journalist Saeed Nadeem looks into the ongoing problems in the volatile border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan Since taking over the helm of the White House, President Barack Obama has been focusing more on Afghanistan and of course Pakistan whil...
Anish Kapoor:

Art in motion at the Royal Academy It is an elite minority of artists who have been invited to showcase their works in the hallowed halls of the Royal Academy of Arts since it was founded in 1768. The last time the RA dedicated all of its va...
David de l’Avern

Last Post For The Winds of Freedom Icame aware politically, so to speak, in the early nineties, on the day that I walked into town hoping to re-train under a much publicised government programme. It was for me a bitter revelation while sitting in a ...