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ANC activist who opposed Thabo Mbeki challenges Labour leader for seat in British Parliament
An MP in the making? Former ANC activist and South African freedom fighter, Andrew Feinstein (Picture: courtesy of Skwawkbox) Former African National Congress (ANC) MP Andrew Feinstein today (May… Read more >
Palestinians and their supporters mark the 76th anniversary of Nakba in London
Katy Colley from Hastings made her position clear during a stop the war in Gaza protest in October 2023. By Trevor Grundy Palestinians and thousands of their diaspora-based… Read more >
Britain is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world with millions of birds and mammals facing extinction
The front-page of the “I” newspaper on May 24, 2024 By Trevor Grundy Senior officials from four of Britain’s best known wildlife groups have issued a scathing attack… Read more >
Putin’s atrocities go onto the back-burner as our eyes and ears turn towards a slaughterhouse called Gaza
The poet Wilfred Owen spent part of his 25th birthday in March 1918 in Ripon Cathedral. A few days later, he returned to the Western Front. He was killed just… Read more >
Bullyboys and haters of the truth force journalists -their families and friends – to relocate for their own safety
Broadcaster Peter Sharp reporting from Heroes Acre on the edge of Harare, Zimbabwe soon after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in April 1980. Political thugs do all they can to silence voices… Read more >
THE STREET IN YORK THAT MADE ‘SHAMBLES’ A HOUSEHOLD WORD IN BRITAIN
If you live in Britain, you’ll be familiar with the word shambles. But where does the word come from and what does it signify? TREVOR GRUNDY reports after visiting… Read more >
Three quarters of UK swimmers will boycott filthy beaches and seas this summer
Storm clouds over England: The small town of Whitstable in East Kent is famous for its oysters, its beaches and its nearness to London. A question mark hangs over its… Read more >
‘Oh starving children of Gaza’- A poem that invades and batters the hearts of all but the soul-dead
A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire. Three Mother and Child sculptures in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response… Read more >
England’s largest megalith reminds us that men worshipped the unknown thousands of years before the arrival of Christianity in Britain
A myth says that the Devil created the stone while in a raging fury that a Christian church had been built on Pagan lands belonging to him. (Picture: Trevor Grundy)… Read more >
A rising tide of plastic waste is threatening sea-birds like never before
The endangered fulmar, a victim of our stupidity, greed and ignorance about wildlife By Trevor Grundy Member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) … Read more >