A 22-year-old law student boards the last bus home after a night out. She finds she’s 20p short of the £5 fare and pleads to be let on or given time to visit a cash machine. The driver refuses, leaving her stranded in Nottingham city centre at 3am, where she is subsequently attacked and raped. …
The Tucson public school system recently eliminated the whole Mexican-American studies curriculum, and banned a slew of books, including Shakespeare’s The Tempest. There are similar things going on all over the country, with book bannings and the firing of teachers who try to pose contrary points of view and get students to think for …
We should expect some form of wisdom, even common sense, to emerge from our rulers, whether they be the uber-capitalists or the errand boys in politics who do their bidding. To allow Wall Street and City characters, whose only talent is to make profit out of obscure financial instruments, to lord it over us, to …
Writing this in London I cannot let the opportunity go by without commenting on the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The Queen has been the best Head of State of any country in the world, and has been thus for decades. She has worked tirelessly for sixty years and has been a model of public …
Conversation accidentally overheard in a concert hall: “…………It’s a Debussy piece, which he authorised with the publisher years before. But in this later edition a number of notes had been added in bar 232. There’s nothing wrong with the new notes , but I personally think that modern instrumentalists should play the original version”. “There’s …
