Opinion and feature articles.
It wasn’t an earthquake. It wasn’t a seismic shift. It was a by election – and by elections are like that. So what should Labour learn from it? That said, this by election does show some worrying trends. Firstly, we have to recognise that the traditional Scots Labour vote is threatened by the SNP. Red […]
Continue ReadingCuban and South American journalists have gathered to honor the 50th anniversary of the death of the last journalist killed in Cuba. Carlos Bastidas was only 23 years of age when he was assassinated by Fulgencia Batista’s secret police after having visited Fidel Castro’s forces in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Edmundo Bastidas, Carlos’ brother, told […]
Continue ReadingMajor European firms are the main culprits of bribery and corruption abroad… Capital has made the world smaller. Businesses from developed countries enter emerging markets to build scale on a daily basis. As a result people are wealthier and economies stronger: China, India, Brazil, Russia, Nigeria and most of Latin America are notable examples. A […]
Continue ReadingPublic boarding schools are some of the best schools in Britain, but as a system to grow up in, they cannot be reduced to numbers and tables… Across the country, the fairytale education will soon be coming to an end for thousands of privileged pupils. When this summer eventually dawns, it will represent a seismic […]
Continue ReadingThe size zero debate rages on, yet the details are as slim as the models. Just who are these 'young girls' who are susceptible to eating problems, and what lies behind their disordered eating? The need for young women to have a healthy body image is clear, but could thousands of girls be at risk […]
Continue ReadingBillions of dollars have been allocated to rebuild Iraq, but average citizens are seeing little of it in their lives… Malnourished Iraqi children stand outside the highway's toilets looking for alms. Their job is to clean the overflowing toilets on the motorway from the Jordanian border to Baghdad. The actual road is in remarkable condition, accept for […]
Continue ReadingA traditional holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Kurdish people from a mythical tyrant is under threat… It is Newroz festival today. Newroz means 'new day' in Kurdish. They say this 'new day festival' is being celebrated in all Eastern cultures but for Kurdish people it means a lot more than a new day that says […]
Continue ReadingWeb TV and Video on Demand are threatening TV as we know it with old school operators running scared and the new breed clamouring for a slice of the pie… It was a beautiful day when the head of Disney finally came out and admitted piracy (or the “Dark Net” as they call it) is […]
Continue ReadingThe web's rescue home of spiked stories, deemed by network news controllers as too risky to run, questions why the 'Gray Lady' won't help it out… This is an important journalistic and public policy question. The Times claims to be the world's pre-eminent newspaper, it publishes the International Herald Tribune, has a major news service, […]
Continue ReadingAs women are bombarded with images of flawless models masquerading as older women regaining their youth, one woman fears for the effects on her daughter… In this age of beauty and youth-obsessed society, it seems that magazines have found a great marketing tool advertising products that promise to transform average middle-aged women into beautiful super-models […]
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