Over the Easter weekend, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby spoke out against the Government’s newly announced plan to send some people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom to Rwanda. Welby called the plan ‘against the judgment of
Keir Starmer’s tenure as Labour leader looks increasingly insecure. After losing last month’s by-election in Hartlepool, defeat in the upcoming Batley and Spen by-election would be a significant blow and might well trigger a leadership
It has been over a year since Turkey banned the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. This decision was part of an effort to clamp down on a supposed smear campaign aimed at President Erdogan. The opposition argue, by
As we hear news of more than seven hundred dead in Mecca, one can predict two kinds of reactions: there will be regret, of course, about the huge loss of life; but there will also be
This week the Guardian reporter Kevin McDonald took issue with Nick Clegg’s description of ISIS as “medieval”. McDonald reported: ‘given the extreme violence of Isis fighters and the frequent images of decapitated bodies, it is
Introduction, by Abdel Razzaq Takriti Arabic is the fourth most widely spoken language on earth. It is also one of the oldest living tongues, boasting an exceptionally rich and uninterrupted historical and literary tradition. The