Red Line for Gaza: why does the UK government still sell arms to Israel?

September 14, 2025Allyship, Antiracism, Black History, Death and Dying, Democracy, Equality, History, Homelessness, Human Rights, Hunger and Food Insecurity, Morality, Politics, Racism, Refugees

On Saturday 6 September a couple of friends and I marched in support of Red Line for Gaza. The march was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (not to be confused with the UK government’s proscribed Palestine Action). This report suggests there were 300,000 of us; this one that there were 20,000. Certainly thousands marched … Read More

Language: how it means everything, and nothing

July 14, 2024Allyship, Antiracism, Art, Artists, Equality, Fiction, Human Rights, Kindness, Language, Listening, Literary Prizes, Plays, Refugees, Storytelling, Theatre

A couple of weeks ago some friends suggested we see ENGLISH, by Sanaz Toossi, at the Kiln Theatre. It’s finished its run now, but if you see it advertised anywhere, go. Toossi wrote the play after the travel ban, colloquially known as the Muslim Ban – ‘a licence to discriminate, disguised as a “national security … Read More

A Ukrainian Christmas

December 14, 2022Allyship, Christmas, Democracy, Flowers/Blossom, Human Rights, Refugees, Ukraine

Business Ukraine Magazine reports that Kharkiv’s main Christmas tree has, this year, been put up in an underground station – to protect it from Russian air strikes. The magazine also retweeted the Washington Post’s report about Volodymyr Zelensky becoming Time’s Person of the Year: That a leader with no previous military experience chose to remain … Read More