Catherine Davidson A poem can be an act of attention, a distillation of language, a private prayer, or a pair of glasses to help see the world anew. When the noise of our “getting and spending” culture fell silent last spring, poetry came out of the clear blue skies – like bird song, both necessary …
Poetry as Attention, Illumination and Acts of Resistance Read More »
Rasheed Ogunlaru There are multiple inequalities in our society: you see it play out in politics, business, in our homes, workplaces and communities. There are huge economic, class and social divides – and we have far to travel when it comes to gender, race, disability, faith, sexuality, age and other equalities. And while the last …
Looking More Deeply at Humanity is key to Equality Read More »
Prakash Khanal, PhD Thousands of years ago, mankind invented money. Initially money was made in coins made out of ‘mud’ and ‘leathers.’ Then man moved onto introducing money made out of ‘metal coins.’ Then mankind introduced monetary notes made out of paper. Nowadays money has been transgressing into digital forms. The air, land- rocks, water-oceans, …
Climate change is a big deal. It’s bells have been ringing in your ears for a while now but the question is, why should we care? From the Himalayan Mountains to the Amazon rainforest, the polar ice sheets and all the mega cities in between, wherever we live today – they will all be affected. …
Hom Paribag FRSA Everybody says that this pandemic is like war. Given that the amount of death, danger and difficulty it has put us through all at once is unprecedented. In the lexicon of unprecedentedness it is more serious than the war that our last generation had fought. During the period of the Great World …
This is the Time we all Should be Extraordinary to run the Affairs of Society Read More »
Bill McGuire The prospect of dodging our temperate world’s journey into a hothouse hell looks increasingly bleak with every passing day. We think that business as usual, with a bit of tinkering around the edges, will make everything fine. These attitudes suggest that the global economy can continue to grow—and with a bit of luck, …
There’s a Simple Answer to Climate Change… but Will Capitalism Allow it? Read More »
Margret Laird The immediate aspect of the coronavirus pandemic which has assailed us since 2020 has been the striking contrast between the isolated and squeezed daily lives we have had to lead for fifteen months, and the immensity of theall-encompassing global pandemic which acts as a backcloth to our current lives. As our normal social …
Margret Laird The social lockdown imposed upon us, due to Covid-19, has meant that Zoom funerals have had to become the norm. But it isn’t the same, is it? I recently attended the funeral of a friend who died suddenly, completely unexpectedly.It was an exemplary affair –tragic, serious, with full respect and honour paid to …
Reviewed by Margret Laird Here is a fresh new first novel dealing with three Oxford graduates entering the real world in the very recent timescale of Trump and #MeToo. Iris is off to New York to write, Ezra is in a coming band, and Nance in the process of becoming involved with an older academic. …
Hom Paribag FRSA Friends, those who know that we’re a bunch of people who care for the general well-being of society, they ask if we’ve any opinion regarding the matter of Harry, former Prince, the Duke of Sussex and his ongoing outbursts against the very family he was born into, brought up by and who …
