Sadly 10 years after writing to The Independent the word ‘honour’ is still used to describe brutal murders.

14 02, 2025

The Fifties : Don’t romanticise them not even on Valentine’s day!

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 The Fifties: Don't romanticise them not even on Valentine’s Day! Yesterday, I watched two one act plays by Terrence Rattigan at the Oxford Playhouse. They took me back to the fifties like a time machine! When I interviewed Sir Roger

22 01, 2025

How to stop the marginalisation of minority groups.

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In todays i Yasmin Alibhai Brown writes about British Citizens of Pakistani ancestry and how they regard the grooming gangs. The conclusion was that most people of that background despise them and are distressed by the suffering of the exploited

26 03, 2023

Sharing our cuisine can bring us together to create a healthier society, physically & mentally & can help stop the ‘othering‘ of minority groups.

By |March 26th, 2023|Categories: Letters to the press|0 Comments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkfv This inspirational episode of the Food Programme tells the story of how a photojournalist severely injured in a war zone reinvented himself through cooking. Giles Duley uses food to help transform lives in conflict zones. Food can be