IN YEMEN, a child under the age of five dies from preventable causes every ten minutes. This is the shocking statistic which drives the charity Human Appeal to push on with providing aid on the ground in this war-ravaged country. ...
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Radio 4 marks 70th anniversary of India Partition
Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury BBC Radio 4 will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India in 1947. This will include an exciting dramatic revival of Salman Rushdie’s award-winning Midnight’s Children, which is due to be broadcast on the birthday of Partition ...
Read More »Islamic Relief marks start of Ramadan
THE CHARITY Islamic Relief held a series of events throughout the UK to mark the start of the holy month of Ramadan. The events highlighted the charity’s work over the last 33 years. The main event took place at the ...
Read More »Manchester update: death toll rises; suspect named
THE DEATH TOLL in Manchester stands at 22, with the 59 injured including some victims who have life-threatening and life-changing injuries. The city and its people are still trying to take in what has happened, as sympathy is sent from ...
Read More »Pre-Trump attempt at Mid-East peace
THE LAST DAYS OF US President Obama’s term of office have seen a sudden push to get peace talks re-started between the state of Israel and displaced Palestinians. Don’t hold your breath. Just before Christmas, the United Nations (UN) passed a ...
Read More »Goodness gracious: great walls of… Calais?
UK taxpayers are to fund the erection of a “keep the refugees out” wall in Calais, Home Office Minister Robert Godwill has confirmed. Building will begin any day. The wall, which will be 4 metres high, will seal the last ...
Read More »Mural honours Jo Cox MP
Murdered MP Jo Cox, who lived in Tower Hamlets, was honoured at the LiFe 2016 festival in Lincolnshire, where she posthumously received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Before she entered Parliament, Jo had worked for charities including NSPCC, Save the Children ...
Read More »Islamic Relief projects confirm that aid works
Hackney North MP Diane Abbott spoke up in favour of the effectiveness of UK aid on Monday. She told the House of Commons: “I saw evidence of the drought that is sweeping across eastern and southern Africa. Anyone who says ...
Read More »Jeremy Corbyn gets the “Lutfur Rahman” treatment
The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...
Read More »Corbyn completes Shadow Cabinet reshuffle
The media is still finding it hard to understand how Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn operates. They have been goading him all over the winter break to undertake a Cabinet reshuffle – by which they mean man up, shout at some ...
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