Marina Wheeler, an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, distills the fraility of human condition and reveals her mother’s story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom in an inspiring portrayal of how a woman made her own world as nations and empire were made and dismantled. The historical drama centred…
“ The subject of social care struggles for public attention, crippled by a long history of invisibility and complacency” ex-Guardian journalist Madeline said after exposing a society in which social care has been devalued in Labours of Love. Her reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for…
The English Heritage unveiled blue plaque on the wall of Schomberg House on Pall Mall, London to commemorate the residence of Quobna Ottonah Cugoano, the author and campaigner in 1787 wrote one of the first exposes by an African of slave trading, criticising continued tolerance of horrors of the slave trade by the British Government…
A former competition lawyer telling us after the collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh in 2013 after driven by competition to cut costs and maximise profits quite literally may kill us. The rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few yet no government or organisation has the…
The construction giant Carillion, an outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, leading to one of the greatest financial scandals of modern times following their collapse in January 2018. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other liabilities adding up to a staggering £7 billion, amounting the final…
A highly provocative book by an Indian academic who is the Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, revealing how India is being repackaged into a national brand to be sold to foreign investors, part of ongoing historical shift. “The capitalist transformation of India wherein the logic of capital is…
In 1796, American President George Washington in his farewell address cautioned the young nation “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. “ Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends in American history. From the founding era until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United…
Award-winning investigative Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption by following the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies, spanning Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the Trump White House, all at a terrible human cost. A body in a burned-out Audi.…
David Omand, a rising Whitehall official, in 1982, with John Nott carrying top-secret folder intercepts from Government Communications Agency, GCHQ, met with then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to reveal decrypted messaged, sent by the Argentine Navy, showing Leopoldo Galtieri’s junta was set to seize the Falkland Islands. The capital Port Stanley fell a few days…
Dublin-born Brian Dillon has been collecting sentences and describes as “affinity” a scrupulous but perplexing attachment to the written expression with a full stop. In Suppose a Sentence, Dillon makes these mementos into the 27 one-liners, a literary hitchhikers pickup over the course of his research. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence…