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Gordon BrownThe Guardian |
By the time of the European parliament elections in June, this year’s rightward ebb in European politics will have turned into a tidal wave....
An election year is the time to confront the paralysing gloom and declinist thinking besetting our country and, by rediscovering our moral compass,...
Some 80,000 Welsh families, including 50,000 children, make up the 170,000 Welsh people who today are on the edge of destitution, according to new...
Even if the government issued newspaper editors with D-notices banning any public mention of the word “poverty”, it could hardly do more to create...
With all hope currently buried beneath the rubble of Gaza and Israel’s abandoned kibbutzim, it is hard not to despair about the prospects of an...
A story is told about a British ambassador and his fellow diplomats at the UN who were asked of their hopes for the festive season. “A box of the...
This year has been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war, recession, the China-US standoff, and the Hamas terrorist attack and Gaza war. Yet as...
A few weeks ago, a father walked into a charity warehouse, dumped his distraught 16-year-old son and walked away for good, saying he could no longer...
Children do not start wars or plan acts of terrorism, but too often they are their greatest victims, as the conflict engulfing Israel and Gaza so...
A fter a summer of ever-more deadly floods, droughts and firestorms, two autumn summits – the G20 and the UN general assembly – have come and...