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Dec 18 2009 6:30PM
The Child Madonna & The Unheard Truth

It’s that time of year: nativity costumes, little angels playing Joseph and Mary, and (of course) ’tis also the season of giving and receiving. In my house my nearest and dearest invariably get books, and so I have some firm gift...

Dec 18 2009 2:33PM
Too late for Tulay

The murder of Tulay Goren by her own father would be shocking wherever it happened, and Amnestys work on Turkey, Iraq and several other countries clearly shows that honour killings are a deadly threat to women and girls in numerous...

Dec 18 2009 9:32AM
Happy Xmas (war is over)

War is over, if you want it. Or so John and Yoko told us. Sadly, there are some in Northern Ireland who appear to want it to continue. Last night a man suffered terrible gunshot wounds in an attack in west Belfast, apparently carried...

Dec 17 2009 12:34PM
Get me out of here, Im a Saharan activist

Listening on the radio this morning to a Scottish man stranded in Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands because of Flyglobespan’s collapse , I thought … this sounds familiar. Not just because the holiday-company-collapses-leaving...