Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland has died in a British prison where he was serving an eight year sentence for his role in a plot to kidnap a businessman and hold him to ransom for £10 million. He was found dead in his cell in HMP Parkhurst at...

Communications consultant Monica Leech has secured record libel damages of more than €1.87 million from a High Court jury after it found a series of Evening Herald articles meant she had been having an affair with Minister Martin Cullen. The...

Australian philosopher, Peter Singer, made an interesting argument for global justice as far back as 1972. It revolved around whether people in affluent countries had a duty, a moral obligation, to help people far away. His Famine, Affluence and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLVqhsLgIw&rel=0 I can only imagine what George Orwell would make of difference between America’s response to Afghanistan’s elections, and to those in Iran. The thought brings a smile to my face. There is another...

I have recently found myself exploring Africa’s colonial past and how that has influenced the identity of the various peoples and institutions on the continent. Perhaps the most pleasurable aspect of this research so far has been reading Ngugi wa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg&rel=0 Author of the brilliant Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a powerful communicator. In this short talk, she expresses a lot of what was at the heart of the last post, Blame it on the...

38 per cent of 18-24-year-olds would like to see most immigrants leave, compared to 23 per cent of over-65s. 72 per cent of people want to see a reduction in the number of immigrants living here. 43 per cent say they would like to see some, but not...