One of the pillars of democracy is free speech. Free speech is not a notion which can survive in degrees. You either have it or you don’t. But freedom of religion, racial and gender equality, LGBT rights and basic human rights themselves demand judgement about what you say, to whom and when. Moreover, and especially, […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
The Report prepared by the IICSA about child abuse at these two Roman Catholic Public Schools is truly shocking. Both were infested with pedophiles over decades and neither did anything meaningful about it. The Catholic Church once again came up short on the conduct within its institutions of fundamental wickedness, placing its reputation before its duty, […]