The movement of peoples. Something bigger to come?
Editorial comment: My own experience is a million miles away from what desperate people moving into Europe are going through. In all my years I have never had a day without fresh water and good food. I have always had somewhere safe to sleep and a job when I needed work.
In the current mass movem
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One million old people in England with care needs get no help. We can lay half of this at the government's door – only half
Thoughts on being vulnerable after UK Election 2015
The Conservative Party forewarned us of cuts to the welfare budget of £12bn (12 billion pounds!) – but would not give us any details because they feared a public outcry. The cuts will be vicious and will take support away from people in need who will then have nowhere else to go for help. Some vulne
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Collateral damage – a sorry little phrase. Editorial comment
The term ‘collateral damage’ is trotted out to make the death or damage of innocent people in conflict zones seem like an unfortunate inevitability. We are invited to think it is much the same as infirmity with old age and disturbed nights with a new baby. We don’t like it but we are persuaded it
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Where is attendance compulsory? Just prisons and schools. But aren’t schools supposed to make children happy?
Paying for the banks' mistakes by declaring vulnerable disabled and ill people fit for work – but how many then die or kill themselves? (UK)
Ask Tony Blair how many tens of thousands of children were killed, maimed or orphaned during our invasion of Iraq. And then tell the big knobs at Save the Children
Peter Limbrick writes: My Independent newspaper on 26/11/14 tells me in an article by Kunal Dutta that:
A glittering ceremony in New York last week saw Mr Blair take the prize for his leadership on international development issues during his time as Prime Minister, but the award has been fiercely op
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