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The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, now tragically expanding into Lebanon, continues to expose the support of Western powers for the immoral Zionist regime, particularly the United States and...

The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, now tragically expanding into Lebanon, continues to expose the support of Western powers for the immoral Zionist regime, particularly the United States and...

THE British National Health Service (NHS) was established on July 5, 1948, making Britain the first Western nation to offer free healthcare at the point of use to its entire population.Seventy-nine...

SETTING aside the fact that historically there has been only one legitimate State — the State of Palestine — and that Israel is an occupying force that used violence to seize Palestinian land,...

MANY books and articles attempt to define what it means to be English, but the best I have read is Jeremy Paxman’s “The English: A Portrait of a People.”Even Paxman, however, struggles with the...

Professor Sir Brian Jarman is someone I feel honoured and privileged to call my good friend and mentor. Born in 1933 he began his medical journey during a period of significant change in the UK...

Kamala Harris may well be the US’s next President. Certainly, the money men are backing her.Compared to Trump she appears more intelligent, more caring and above all younger. She knows how to put on...

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to smile more, laugh more, and are generally much happier than you? Why do some people see a glass half filled with water as being half-empty whilst others...

THIS article describes amongst other things correspondence between me and an Israeli Zionist in the two years leading up to October 7, 2023. I will refer to him as Michael although that isn’t his...

I place the blame for the growing divide between the British Asian Muslim community and the rest of British society above all on successive British governments who pander to the small minority of...

Whilst running my schools in Cambridge and supervising my A-level students over a 25 year period I met a wide range of personalities and nationalities. Although most of my British students worked hard...

Whilst it is of course important to prevent the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest and the destruction of any habitat which supports our wildlife and indigenous people, the view that such human...

The word democracy is one of those words or phrases like ‘freedom’ or ‘the public good’ which Western and East European politicians in particular are often fond of using to gain support from...

This book of fiction based on factual events delves into the profound and disturbing themes surrounding the naqba (the Catastrophe), the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians from their...

Before opening my first of two schools in Cambridge I taught French and Latin at a secondary school near Oxford. I served as principal, owner and Careers Adviser in both my Cambridge establishments. I...

The writer is a former school principal Cambridge, UKTHE world is only just recovering from the scourge of the Covid pandemic caused by a highly virulent and often fatal virus.In 1918-1919 a flu...

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”Perhaps ironically this extract taken from William...

One of the central ethical considerations surrounding AI-generated novels is the question of authorship.Traditionally authors are revered for their unique voices creativity and ability to convey...

As I write this I have uppermost in my mind the plight of the people of Palestine.We have all watched with dismay and deep sadness the deaths of tens of thousands of mostly women and children in Gaza....

In condemning the decision of Karim Khan, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, his Defence Minister, the USA is...