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Social Affairs:The Child Bride – Home or Not?
There has been, understandably, much discussion and debate recently over the case of Shamima Begum, the teenage girl who left the UK to...
Labour’s Dissension and Disintegration
Yesterday’s news that seven Labour MPs had quit the party and now intend to sit in Parliament as ‘The Independent Group’ was not the...
Hero, Villain or Poundland Lenin?
It used to be said, even while she was still Prime Minister, that Margaret Thatcher was a divisive figure. She probably was – it is...
Politics: Anti-Semitism - A Labour Problem or a National One?
Guardian writer and author Owen Jones, sometimes referred to as the ‘Poster Boy for the Left’, is not universally popular, except of...
Social Affairs: Taking responsibility – on the cusp of Logan’s Run
The ongoing fuss and bother over Brexit has, understandably, tended to overshadow many other aspects to life in the UK today but one...
Social Affairs: Parents and Social Media Misuse
In my last column I made the point that there are many dangers in everyday life, and I was also critical of parents who do not adequately...
Social Affairs: The Danger of Media Misuse
Last year (In defence of Social Media, Amazon and the Rest, 6 August, 2018) I wrote in support of social media, like Facebook and...
Social Affairs: Blame the Oldies
It is sometimes quite striking how different opinions can often have common threads running throughout them; threads that despite...
Social Affairs: Vote - lest it be taken from you
Whether we like it or not, whether we are tired of it until our brains hurt or not, Brexit is going to dominate life in the UK for a...
Politics: Rightism or Leftism – Is There a Difference?
One of the banner headlines that caught the eye last week suggested that, should the UK not leave the EU, the Far Right will rise...
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