Opinion

Henry A. Kissinger The Russian invasion of Ukraine is very much in our thoughts and conversations. So it should be. It is feared that this conflict could easily turn into a protracted conflict with wider impact beyond Ukraine and its…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: All the indications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been there for several months. Historically, Russians had a particular dislike of Ukraine and its role in the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and its…

An unfortunate incident happened on September 11, 2001, when some 19 terrorists committed suicide by flying aircrafts into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington DC, taking over 300 innocent lives with…

AS I watch a bishop being set scot-free by a court which found too little evidence given by the prosecution to convict him, I would like to repeat an old fairy tale, giving it a modern twist, in a twisted world: There once lived a little…

A couple of months ago a school down the road asked me if I would address parents on how to bring up children! For a moment I asked myself as to how I’d been selected for the job, and wondered whether it had anything to do with bringing up…

MANY friends send me pictures of them floating on the Dead Sea! But the Dead Sea is dying! The Dead Sea’s water level is declining by more than a metre a year, and its surface area has shrunk by around a third since the 1960s. The Dead Sea…