It is a sunny spring late afternoon and a young American, attached to his nation’s embassy, saunters back to his apartment in a quiet part of Paris. As a foreign diplomat he is a…
David Boulton inspiringly describes (25 March) how three Quaker groups coming from different angles – including humanists, agnostics and atheists – found common ground at…
It is just over two and a half years since Lehman Brothers bank filed a petition for bankruptcy. The event was a defining moment in recent times and the shock waves are still…
Britain is one of the most unequal societies in the world: the top twenty per cent are 7.2 times wealthier than the bottom twenty per cent. The corresponding figure in Japan is…
An overwhelming body of research has shown that many British prisons are close to breaking point. Politicians eager for votes have postured to be tougher on crime, and rapidly…
I love the silence. Silence between two people, Who have no need for endless words, At ease with one another.
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