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Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Monday, August 9, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 69 – Happy Birthday Haifa
By Jody Mcintyre The fact that we managed to smuggle a Palestinian girl from Ramallah through an Israeli check-point proves an important point; the Wall that they have built around the West Bank is not for security, and never has been. It is purely a symbol of the system of apartheid that Israel is imposing on […]
Features, Short Stories - Saturday, August 7, 2010 12:16 - 1 Comment
Short Story – “Bang crash splat”
In a new exclusive short story by Dave Prescott, a street musician is faced with an unusual audience and finds himself at the centre of a surreal, and unnerving, series of events. A short tale, comic yet sombre, about what happens when intensities come into contact with each other.
Columns, Devil's Advocate, Ideas, Politics - Thursday, August 5, 2010 14:02 - 9 Comments
Devil’s Advocate: Is Democracy overrated?
Everyone knows -or at least pays lip-service to- Democracy as an exalted ideal. Is everyone wrong? Is this a concept we have been too lazy, or too blind, to fully examine? what is so special about a system that is aimed at creating a good society yet rarely delivers on that promise? In a controversial piece, the first of his 'Devil's Advocate' columns, Omer Ali examines the impact of democracy as well as its theoretical underpinnings. In the process, he draws on examples from politics and economics and takes aim at a few sacred truths.
Columns, Modern Times, Politics, Profiles - Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:57 - 6 Comments
Modern Times: Osman Rasul – In Memory
On Sunday, Osman Rasul, a 27-year old Iraqi Kurd who had spent nine years in the inhumane limbo of the asylum bureaucracy leaped to his death from the seventh floor of a Nottingham tower block. Ceasefire Columnist Corin Faife, a friend of Osman's, pays tribute to a "warm, kind, respectful man", crushed by the injustice and cruelty of the Home Office's asylum policy.
Arts & Culture, Books - Monday, August 2, 2010 15:52 - 1 Comment
Tony Judt – Ill Fares The Land
Tony Judt's latest book is an impassioned plea for a better society. It is also a call to the political and intellectual classes to leave the stale and sterile debates behind. Does Judt hit the mark? or are his arguments more indicative of the problem than the solution? Steven Borowiec investigates.
Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Monday, July 26, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 68 – Home
By Jody Mcintyre I had a feeling that the Mossad were about to pull something on me. It all seemed too easy, but when I finally got through all the “security checks” in Tel Aviv, I was told that my wheelchair had been left in Rome. They should know by now that it will take a […]Modern Times - Tuesday, July 20, 2010 16:55 - 3 Comments
Modern Times: Raoul Moat
“Society creates its own monsters”. So runs, at the time of writing, one of the more intelligent comments posted on the wall of the new Raoul Moat fan page, in stark contrast to the innumerable lines of vitriolic flaming, poor punctuation, ad hominem arguments and flagrant OVERUSE OF CAPS LOCK. Corin Faife takes a look at what the Raoul Moat story, and our collective reaction to it, tell us about the way we live, and think, today.
Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Wednesday, July 7, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week [19]67 – Remembering Palestine
By Jody Mcintyre This week, I travelled through Paris, Lyon and Geneve on my way to Frankfurt in Germany, to meet Hamde, who I lived with for most of my time in Bil’in, Palestine. Six months was a long time, so now he’s more than a brother. Although most of our three days together were full […]Arts & Culture, Theatre - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 17:28 - 0 Comments
Theatre: The Families of Lockerbie
A new play has caused international controversy by revisiting the Lockerbie tragedy through the prism of fictionalised relatives of the victims. It's a risky strategy and one that calls for the most delicate of balancing acts. Against his initial apprehensions and reservations, a sceptical Hicham Yezza is won-over.
