Have you ever played ‘Dead or Alive’? I used to as a girl and still remember the game’s excitement. You jumped up and wound your legs round the waist of a stalwart adult, who…
Of late, I have been wondering just how much money has been spent on weaponry and warfare since the second world war by successive British governments. Earlier this year I…
It appears that the general perception about Islam in the West is that it is a religion that has no regard for human rights. It is said that Islam permits the use of force to…
Some time ago I heard some ministry in which an individual explained his rejection of the word God on the basis that the variety of meanings given to the word renders it useless.…
Denial is a normal way of coping with uncomfortable experiences, such as anxiety and loss. Climate change brings plenty of both, whether through its impacts if it continues…
Am I hearing that we want to take this work forward, that we want to intensify our involvement and that we want it to continue at least until 2015? Yes, clerk, that’s what…
Stuart, in last week’s article, has outlined where Friends have drawn boundaries in the past, but I contend that now there are few, if any, boundaries in relation to three key…
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