The statistics of death and destruction, the millions of refugees and displaced persons and the economic cost are horrific. But the figures only hint at the true cost of war…

Image by Maitane Azurmendi: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Hibu Abu Nada (1991-2023) was killed along with her son in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on 20th October 2023.…

Many years ago I met two heroes of the American Civil rights Movement, Herb Shapiro and Judy Shapiro. only they never told me! Herb is dead now but I would…

I wrote this poem yesterday. Today I am seventy. It is never too late. The inspiration came from a poetry workshop at Manchester Maggies on Thursday. Our usual leader, Clare…

Since Covid has made Staycations a necessity for most of us, why not visit Barrow-in-Furness. We have a unique cultural, historical, archaeological and ecological heritage. But you don’t want to…

Barrow’s cranes, like the yellow hammerhead crane, are gone. With a little imagination at least one of them could have been retained like the Titan Crane in Glasgow which is…

This is my entry to the Kendal Mountain Festival Open Mountain Competition. It was not selected so I am sharing it here. Background The county of Cumbria is not well…

I have just started reading Vaxxers. It is a brilliant book that tackles the anxiety that surrounds the rollout of the Covid vaccine programme. How do I know it is…

Today I saw an example of a true lie. Every fact in the graphic above is true. The meaning given to those facts is false. This is government misinformation in…

I recommend Dave Middleton’s blog post Towards Peace and Justice about the recent initiative from Jeremy Corbyn to establish The Project For Peace and Justice. Like Dave I welcome this…