An Ode for our Friend Lazu
mhsutton Stand tall, My Friend, like the giant that you are You’ve fought the valiant fight! Soar high, My Friend, towards the farthest star Become surrounded by it’s heavenly light. Leave…
Turning Thirty
No age has held ever much significance for me. Not twenty one or twenty five. Not since I was ten, when my Dad took me to buy a book of…
A Head Unbowed.
I must confess that with the dizzying number of causes, campaigns and events in the world to be active about – enough to keep a brigade of activists busy for…
Being Human
Given the time in which we live, when all seems so dangerous and unstable; when the cry of the suffering seems so loud – yet unheard; when the tears of…
Insignificant Flim Flam.
A storm is blowing this week after a Swedish business magazine claimed that Bill Gates was no longer the world’s richest person. Not only has Mr Gates been apparently been…
Back in the Fold (a.k.a Business as Usual)
With a few master strokes – principally paying off the billions in compensation to the families of the victims of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie and renouncing its ‘advanced’…
In the moment
Looking out from my third floor flat , out over the lights of small town England. The lights, the quiet, the peace; a wave of humility hits me, a spontaneous…
Calm and Restraint
‘… we appeal for calm and restraint…’ – part of US statement on Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Just as it seems things could not get any worse, events…
A Preoccupation With War
No matter how hard they try, it would seem the specter of launching an unjust war, invasion and the sustaining of an occupation refuses to be shifted. But it is…
Of Hornets and Terrorists
More blood in Baghdad, more suicide bombers and more raids against the occupying forces. It is billed as Shia on Sunni violence (or Sunni on Shia). But these two groups…