A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, by Adel Guindy (Austin Macauley, NY, June 2020). A Sword Over The Nile. Table of Contents-2 With Egypt’s Copts targeted as part of a bloody and...
John Bird – founder of The Big Issue – Click here to listen to his Roscoe Lecture given on Tuesday January 15th 2013
Roscoe Lecture by John Bird MBE, Founder and Editor in chief of The Big Issue. Click here to hear the lecture: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm The 109th Roscoe Lecture - “The Necessity of Poverty” - took place at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday...
The Hobbit and Life of Pi
There have been some wonderful movies showing over Christmas and the New Year. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel’s novel of the same name, is spell bindingly good. The story revolves around a 16-year old Indian boy called Piscine Molitor, "Pi" Patel, who...
As antisemitism once again disfigures Europe we should remember our past: Confessions of a Butterfly – the remarkable story of Janusz Korczak
As anti-Semitism once again disfigures Europe we should remember our pastAnti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head again in Europe - with Jews vilified because of their religion, their race or their State. August 2014 has seen Jews fleeing from Paris after shocking...
Hobbits’ Second Breakfasts In Lancashire – and Tolkien’s Links With Lancashire and His Faith
Click below for a short Granada Television report on St.Mary's Hall children at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire enjoying a second Hobbits' breakfast - at the place where Tolkien wrote some of The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings - and where two of his sons lived or...
Hobbits' Second Breakfasts In Lancashire – and Tolkien's Links With Lancashire and His Faith
Click below for a short Granada Television report on St.Mary's Hall children at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire enjoying a second Hobbits' breakfast - at the place where Tolkien wrote some of The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings - and where two of his sons lived or...
Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi's Visit To Westminster – and the continuing challenges facing the country
Immediately after Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic address to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall on 21 June, a small ceremony took place in Speaker’s House. Clad in full academic regalia, several of us from Liverpool John Moores University, including our former...
Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi’s Visit To Westminster – and the continuing challenges facing the country
Immediately after Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic address to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall on 21 June, a small ceremony took place in Speaker’s House. Clad in full academic regalia, several of us from Liverpool John Moores University, including our former...
BBC Extracts from Shin Dong Hyok's "Escape From Camp" 14
To listen to the serialised extracts from Shin Dong Hyok's book, "Escape From Camp 14", which have been broadcast this week on BBC Radio Four, use the following link to take you to the recordings:...
Dickens – Faith and Fiction
In this bicentenary year of his birth the best new biography of the life of Charles Dickens life is by Claire Tomalin – and later in the year she will deliver one of my Roscoe Lectures in Liverpool to celebrate the bicentenary...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
Social Media
Site Search
Recent Posts
High Court’s Welcome Decision To Allow A Challenge To A Barbaric Law
The High Court’s decision to grant permission to hear a landmark case. It has allowed Heidi Crowter, a 24-year-old with Down’s Syndrome and Máire Lea-Wilson whose boy Aidan has Down’s to challenge a discriminatory and barbaric law which kills 90% of Down’s babies-...
If it’s Grandma Wong or Tiananmen tanks I know who will eventually win
Women like Grandma Wong are the reason why the brave and great people of China will one day replace an ideology that abducts, tortures, and forces staged recantations with a democratic system that respects the rule of law and human rights. If it’s Grandma Wong or...
Nigerian teacher and school children Ezra Bako, Miracle Saitu Danjuma, Favour Danjuma, Happiness Odoji, and Christiana Madugu Have Been Released – but Leah Shairbu remains in captivity and the atrocities of Boko Haram and Fulani Militias continue.
Nigerian teacher and school children Ezra Bako, Miracle Saitu Danjuma, Favour Danjuma, Happiness Odoji, and Christiana Madugu Have Been Released - but Leah Shairbu remains in captivity and the atrocities of Boko Haram and Fulani Militias continue. In Parliament I...