The parable of the blind people and an elephant is a well known story told of a group of blind people who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it… Read more…
The terrible and inhumane attack initiated by Hamas has triggered a massive and disproportionate response by Israeli armed forces on the peoples of Gaza. As a result what has emerged is a situation where the Palestinian civilian peoples are being collectively punished. This article highlights the memorial to these deaths held at the University of Edinburgh along with some of the geopolitical and international law perspectives on the terrible and inhumane atrocities taking place. Read more…
George Platen could not conceal the longing in his voice. It was too much to suppress. He said, “Tomorrow’s 1 May. Olympics!”
He rolled over on his stomach and peered over the foot of his bed at his roommate. Didn’t he feel it, too? Didn’t this make some impression on him? Read more…
Annex: verb to; to add to the end: to join or attach: to take permanent possession of: to purloin, appropriate: to affix: append. – noun something added: a supplementary building. Annexe Read more…
This is an article written by Bob Cranwell, author of the website Amateur Emigrant. He worked in adventure and tailormade travel as a Tour Leader and driver, an Operations Manager, Country Manager, Travel Agent and Tour Operator. He has done a vast array of different jobs from emptying cesspits using a bucket nailed to an old oar, to creating documents which formed part of a submission to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Read more…
This is not a history of Scotland, this is a history of much of the world where people have been displaced from ancestral lands and commons by bullies. People have been dispossessed from lands at various places and at various times by others who have stolen it by force or by cunning, but it all too often amounts to the same thing – sorrows and harms being unfairly visited upon those at a disadvantage. Read more…
This is a conversational interview recorded with Dr Gillian Dooley about the editorial work which she is involved with in Australia and other parts of the world. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English after having retired from Flinders University Library where she had been Special Collections Librarian from 1999 until 2015 and Publishing Support Librarian 2016 from 2017. Read more…