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Jack Underwood Weasel So Weasel, it has come to this; to your thighs like tall glasses of milk, your biscuit hair, eyes that are like any kind of deep water. It has come to those coiled, snaking guts we had when we were youn...
Author Introduction

- Amit Rajp The Alternative Guide to Indian Culture This, my first foray into writing, is a sarcastic yet nostalgic look at British Asian life. I have referenced my own childhood memories in describing classic elements of Asian culture by way ...
Poetry

Jack Underwood Weasel So Weasel, it has come to this; to your thighs like tall glasses of milk, your biscuit hair, eyes that are like any kind of deep water. It has come to those coiled, snaking guts we had when we were youn...
Democracy Thai-style:

- by Jonathan Fryer Horses for courses in the spreading for democracy Democracy comes in many forms. Neither the bipolar US presidential system nor the adversarial Westminster parliamentary model is a global template, nor should it be. Even in West...
The Right to Protest:

There are two sides to every story - by Sally Ramage Security planning for the G20 Summit on 1 April 2009, in London, at the Excel Centre, was a massive drain on Metropolitan Police finances. Their Commander had to make an educated guess as to h...
News in Brief

Poetry Prize Shortlist Revealed The shortlist for the 18th Forward Prize for Poetry has been announced. Respected poets Sharon Olds, Hugo Williams and Christopher Reid are in the running for best collection for the first time in the annual awards. Pete...
Picture Editorial

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Letters to the Editor

Haunted? I don’t believe that No 10 Downing Street is haunted, because I don’t believe that ghosts exist. This was a well presented feature, but in my opinion, it was more than a little pointless. There is no such thing as the paranormal or the sup...
Society Today Q&A

{xtypo_quote_right} Address your questions to CHRISTINE BLOWER NUT General Secretary Christine Blower was elected as Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in January 2005. On 5 April 2008 she became Acting General Secretary and...
Society Today Competition

Poet of the Month {xtypo_info}The winner of last month’s competition is Suchitra Chatterjee from Brighton who wins Nawal El Saadawi – The Fall of the Imam published by Telegram books for this poem entitled ’A Rose’s Kiss’ A Rose’s Kiss What...
What We’re Saying

Let’s Rise Up And Deal With It! As our recession grows older, it seems that little progress is being made to ease the plight of ordinary people. For the young, the situation looks particularly grim. The hopes that they had taken into a job market they ...
Iranian demonstrators gather behind democratic hope:

Camp Ashraf and the exiled opposition As a generation calls for democratic change on the streets of Tehran, Hossein Abedini looks at the problems faced by exiled opposition group, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, in their temporary home in Iraq. Iran�...
An Imaginary Revolution

- by Rahila Gupta Rahila Gupta imagines a world without violence against women Imagining a world without violence against women sounds deceptively simple but the act of imagination is, in fact, quite revolutionary. Especially for women. Because...
Plane Stupid:

Speaking uncomfortable truths or just plain stupid? In late 2005, three climate activists walked into the lobby of the Waldorf Hilton Hotel on the Strand. One was blocked by security, one made a run for it, but was rugby tackled to the groun d, a...
Transition Towns:

Time to make a change? At the Guinness Trust Estate’s community garden in Brixton, residents work on the crops which include the ubiquitous potato, six varieties of tomato, runner and French beans, beetroot, cabbages, raspberries, peppers, aubergi...
The Unemployables:

How to help those in need of work “I asked for help when I was working for a public body. Despite promises they did nothing and it was very disappointing. Eventually they told me I could no longer do the job and I left. I think other staff compla...
Respect!

- by Iain McWhirter The media needs to know its own power As a trustee of an organisation that holds an annual conference for sixth form students on a wide range of topics relating to “the rule of law,” it is a challenge to find speakers with w...
“Us Brits are always better when our backs are against the wall ”

- Dame Vera Lynn When you enter the beautiful Sussex home of Dame Vera Lynn, she and her daughter Virginia immediately make you feel welcome. At 93 years of age, Dame Vera has lost none of her vitality and enthusiasm for life. Born in East Ham, she...
Intensive Parenting:

Professor Frank Furedi on changing parenting culture In 21st century Britain parenting has become disassociated from childrearing. Increasingly parenting is represented as a skill that is best understood by experts and policy makers and very r...
Cheap Wheat, Internet and the Russian Freedom!

- by Hom Paribag In 1992, the elder brother of a very good friend of mine in a mountain village in the Himalayas came home from Moscow, Russia. He was tall, dark and handsome and wore a very Russian suit and tie that gave him both pride and pr...