Blogs Edited
​by Jane Linden

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Latest blogs​​
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PUTIN'S NEXT MOVE
10/10/2024

MORE DEVOLUTION: A "BRITAIN BUILT TO LAST"?
29/09/2024

ASSASSINATIONS & THE RULE OF LAW
11/09/2024

THE KLEPTOCRACY NETWORK
30/08/2024

DAD'S ON KAMALA'S TICKET: IS TRUMP TOAST?
16/08/2024 

BRITISH DEMOCRACY: NO TIME FOR COMPLACENCY
03/08/2024

A CUNNING PLAN FOR THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT
25/07/2024

WHAT'S LEFT - AND WHAT'S WOKE?
06/07/2024

GROWTH: A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT?
28/06/2024

SOUTH AFRICA'S GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY: WILL IT WORK?
14/06/2024

BRITAIN & GERMANY: KINDRED SPIRITS IN PERILOUS TIMES
28/05/2024

ISRAEL & SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HAGUE 
08/05/2024

FREEDOM OF CHOICE & THE 'NANNY STATE'
25/04/2024

SIZEWELL C: TOO DESTRUCTIVE, TOO EXPENSIVE, TOO LATE
13/04/2024

CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE GOVERNMENT BY OMERTA?
02/04/2024

GOVERNMENT BY DUPLICITY
18/03/2024

JUST WAR: IS THERE SUCH A THING?
06/03/2024

  AYATOLLAHS, BOMBS & BARBIES 
​  17/02/2024

REFUGEE CHILDREN: THE KINDERTRANSPORT & TODAY 
​07/02/2024

GOVERNANCE & THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL
22/01/2024

THE IMMIGRATION GAME
04/01/2024

A WREATH FOR REITH
15/12/2023

IMMIGRATION OR INEQUALITY?
30/11/2023

"RWANDA IS SAFE": RISHI'S END-OF-PIER SHOW
17/11/2023

WALLED IN: WHAT WAS EAST GERMANY REALLY LIKE?
05/11/2023

THE GREEN POPE: FRANCIS & THE ETHIC OF RESPONSIBILITY
25/10/2023

IS CHRISTIANITY A 'LUXURY BELIEF'?
06/10/2023

I NEED TO TALK TO A HUMAN BEING
26/09/2023

THE SEARCH FOR A JUST PEACE IN UKRAINE
16/09/2023

ERDOGAN: PUTIN'S PARTNER INSIDE NATO?
29/08/2023

TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY?
17/O8/2023

OPEN LETTER TO MR. SUNAK
04/08/2023.

THE ILLEGAL ILLEGAL MIGRATION ACT 
17/07/2023

JO BIDEN & OLD AGE: EXPERIENCE OR INFIRMITY?
03/07/2023

BEING BRITISH: QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY
21/06/2023

ERDOGAN'S VICTORY: THE DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY
30/05/2023

DOGS: THE EVOLUTIONARY CANINE ECONOMY
11/05/2023

WHY WE NEED A GENERAL ELECTION
27/04/2023

DO SANCTIONS WORK?
19/04/2023

SWEDEN, SOUTH AFRICA & THE CHURCHES
06/04/2023

ISRAEL'S CRISIS: RELIGIOUS & NATIONALIST EXTREMISM
28/03/2023

'LEFTY LAWYERS' & 'LEFTY POPES' ?
14/03/2023

RELIGION & POLITICS: MUST KATE FORBES CHOOSE BETWEEN GOD & THE SNP?
07/03/2023 

PUTIN'S WAR & SOUTH AFRICA
28/02/2023

HOW 'GLOBAL BRITAIN' IS LETTING DOWN THE WORLD'S POOR
07 FEBRUARY 2023

​A TALE OF TWO POPES
16/01/2023

HAS AMERICA HIJACKED CHRISTIANITY?
04/01/2023

ISRAEL & IRAN: RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM & THE THREAT OF WAR
13/12/2022

IRAN: REVOLT OR REVOLUTION?
29/11/2022

FREEDOM OF RELIGION: TOUCHSTONE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
22/11/2022

DO DRAMA DOCUMENTARIES FEED A CULTURE OF MISINFORMATION?
15/11/2022

RISHI SUNAK NEEDS AN ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION
06/11/2022

RISHI SUNAK: THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY
02/11/2022

POLITICS, POWER & PROFITS: THE OIL COMPANIES
27/10/2022

FATHER ALBERT NOLAN  (1934-17 OCTOBER 2022)
19/10/2022

THE UKRAINE WAR: LESSONS FROM HOMER
13/10/2022

THE IDOL OF THE MARKET WORSHIPPED BY GOVERNMENT
05/10/2022

THE BRITISH STATE IN MOURNING
23/09/2022

LIFE BEFORE BIRTH
08/09/2022

GOD'S DIPLOMATS: PUTIN'S WAR & THE PURSUIT OF PEACE
26/08/2022

SUMMER OF THE ZOMBIES: THE 1922 COMMITTEE'S BIG MISTAKE
19/08/2022

THE DUNWICH DYNAMOS & THE GOOD SAMARITAN
12/08/2022

HOW THE NHS FELL APART UNDER THE TORIES
20/07/2022

STELLA MARIS: THE MEN WHO GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS
10/07/2022

AFTER TIVERTON: KEIR STARMER & 'THE VISION THING'
25/06/2022

BRUCE KENT: A PRIEST FOR ALL SEASONS
18/06/2022

TRIAL & ERROR: PROSECUTING WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE
09/06/2022

POPE FRANCIS & JUST WAR: BRITAIN'S ROLE IN UKRAINE
02/06/2022

PUTIN, WAR CRIMES & HATE SPEECH
23/05/2022

PRITI AND THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
09/05/2022

PRITI PATEL'S OUTING TO RWANDA
01/05/2022

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY: FROM IVORY TOWER TO EXCEL CENTRE
23/04/2022

CULTURE WARS & MODERNITY
16/04/2022

IS UKRAINE PUTIN'S HOLY WAR?
06/04/2022

BRITAIN'S WASTED TALENT
01/04/2022

THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF WAR IN UKRAINE
24/03/2022

GOVERNMENT'S DUTY OF CARE: NUL POINTS
17/03/2021

THE GOOD SPYING GUIDE: STALIN TO PUTIN
12/03/2022

HOW FREE IS OUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE?
02/03/2022

THE DETECTORISTS
22/02/2022

REFUGEES, FOOD-BANKS & THE LITTLE PLATOONS
15/02/2022

BORIS JOHNSON: THE TROUBLE WITH APOLOGIES
08/02/2022

SOUTH AFRICA'S HEROES: NEW TIMES, SELECTIVE MEMORIES
03/02/2022

PARTYGATE, PROFITEERING & THE PANDEMIC
28/01/2022

WILL THE US REPUBLICANS CAUSE AN ISRAEL-IRAN WAR?
20/01/2022

POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
13/01/2022

OUR FREEDOMS AREN'T SAFE IN TORY HANDS
4/1/2022

 A LIFE LESS ORDINARY: SISTER PAMELA HUSSEY 
18/12/2021 

NO EASY ROAD FOR STARMER
17/12/2021

BRITAIN, USA, FRANCE: QUARRELS ANCIENT & MODERN
​10/12/2021

HOW MICHEL BARNIER WON AT BREXIT
​03/12/2021

                                             

THE WEST'S MILITARY CARBON BOOTPRINT
25/11/2021 

IS BOSNIA NEXT ON PUTIN'S LIST?
19/11/2021

POOR OLD JO BIDEN OR POOR OLD US?
12/11/2021

WHY RISHI SUNAK SHOULD TAKE A TRIP TO MALI
05/11/2021

ON DUNWICH BEACH
29/10/2021

'GLOBAL BRITAIN' : TRAGEDY OR FARCE?
21/10/2021

CAN MALARIA BE ERADICATED?
13/10/2021

COP26: AN END TO THE 100 YEARS WAR ON CREATION?
05/10/2021

GPs CAUGHT IN THE BLAME-GAME
02/10/2021

COUNTERING A FIRST-ORDER THREAT
27/09/2021

MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
12/09/2021

BIDEN, BISHOPS & AMERICAN CATHOLICS
​04/09/2021

WHAT WAS ALL THAT BIDEN-BASHING ABOUT?
27/08/2021

ST. DOMINIC'S MISSION
15/08/2021

AFGHANISTAN: THE ENDURING WAR
06/08/2021

VACCINES: 300 YEARS OF ANTI-VAXX DISRUPTION
30/07/2021

MIND THE GAP: THE POPE'S  RADICAL VISION OF POLITICS
24/07/2021

FREEDOM DAY: A CELEBRATION OF CHAOS
16/07/2021

SOUTH AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS
08/07/2021

CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT: HOW BAD WILL IT GET?
03/07/2021

BIDEN & THE BISHOPS: STORM IN A BAPTISMAL FONT?
27/06/2021

IRAN: NEW PRESIDENT, BLEAK FUTURE
20/06/2021

MERITOCRACY & ITS DISCONTENTS
12/06/2021

TEN COVID LESSONS
05/06/2021

DEEP CUTS IN INTERNATIONAL AID SHAME US ALL
29/05/2021

RELIGION & VIOLENCE
​21/05/2021

KEIR STARMER & THE VISION THING
14/05/2021

OPEN LETTER TO MY CONSTITUENCY M.P.
09/05/2021

POLITICS & FOOTBALL
01/05/2021

THE COMMON-NONSENSE OF NATIONALISM
23/04/2021

DELUSIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY
16/04/2021

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARING FOR LEBANON'S LOST GENERATION
09/04/2021

ROWAN WILLIAMS & ST. BENEDICT: WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY DO WE WANT TO LIVE IN?
01/04/2021

WHAT BRITAIN DID & DIDN'T DO TO NIGERIA
25/03/2021

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION: SCRUTINY, DEMOCRACY'S DEFENCE
18/03/2021

TWO-NATION TORYISM
10/03/2021

 IRISH-AMERICANS & POLITICS: FROM JFK TO BIDEN
04/03/2021

IRAQ: POPE FRANCIS' PERILOUS JOURNEY
25/02/2021 

SACRED SPACES - SACRED PLACES
19/02/2021

TRUMP'S 2nd IMPEACHMENT: ACQUITTED & DANGEROUS
14/02/2021

FOR GDP READ GRAND DECEPTION ABOUT PROGRESS
06/02/2021

CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE A POLITICAL CULTURE OF LIES?
01/02/2021

TODAY'S UN BAN ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS: IS IT MORAL GRANDSTANDING?
22/01/2021

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN
16/01/2021

THE ROAD TO CORRUPTION
10/01/2021

DOES FRENCH SECULARISM HINDER COUNTER-TERRORISM?
03/01.2021

HOLY INNOCENTS: THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
27/12/20

MORSE, LEWIS & BREXIT
20/12/20

BREXIT: WHAT PRICE BRITISH OR SCOTTISH SOVEREIGNTY?
13/12/20 

US DEMOCRATS NEED TWO TERMS & NEW IDEAS
09/12/20

BREXIT: DIARY OF A DIVORCE FORETOLD
02/12/2020

BIG PHILANTHROPY: DANGEROUS OR GENEROUS?
22/11/20

COVID & COMMUNITY
15/11/2020

FRATELLI TUTTI: A POPE'S ADVICE FOR A CATHOLIC PRESIDENT
08/11/2020

LETTER FROM AMERICA: BIDEN'S TWO BIG OBSTACLES
02/11/2020

TRUMP & JOHNSON: POLITICS AS SPECTACLE & ENTERTAINMENT
27/10/2020

MIGRATION & EUROPEAN VALUES
18/10/2020

MIKE PENCE'S DATE WITH DESTINY?
07/10/2020

TRUMP STOLE THE 2016 ELECTIONS. CAN HE DO IT AGAIN?
01/10/2020

THE RULE OF 3: PUTIN, TRUMP & JOHNSON
22/O9/2020

LETTER FROM AMERICA: HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION
15/09/2020

'COLLAPSOLOGY' FOR BEGINNERS
08/09/2020

THE COVID GENERATION GAP
01/09/2020

THE UIGHURS: SHOULD CHINA'S LEADERS BE ON TRIAL IN THE HAGUE?
25/08/2020

ZIMBABWE'S COURAGEOUS BISHOPS
19/08/2020

JOSEPH CARDIJN: A MAN WHO CHANGED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
17/08/2020

WHY IS THE POPE SILENT ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE UIGHERS?
10/O8/2020

DOES THE CATHOLIC RIGHT WANT TO CHOOSE THE NEXT POPE?
29/07/2020

THE POISONOUS STATES
20/07/20

ART AS IDENTITY: WHAT IRAN TEACHES BRITAIN
10/07/20

WILL CHRISTIANS GIVE TRUMP A SECOND TERM?
02/07/2020

DFID-FCO MERGER: WRONG TIME, WRONG REASONS, WRONG MERGER
25/06/2020

YES MR. PRESIDENT THERE IS A CONSPIRACY
18/06/2020

CIIR: A RADICAL LOSS
11/06/2020

GLOBAL JIHAD: THE FORGOTTEN THREAT
04/06/2020

A TIME FOR HOPE NOT OPTIMISM
28/05/2020

PIUS XII & THE HOLOCAUST: OPEN & SHUT CASE?
21/05/2020

THE TIRED, OLD SECULAR-RELIGIOUS DIVIDE
14/05/2020

WHO FOLLOWS THE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE?
07/05/2020

A MAY DAY MAYDAY: CATHOLICISM & WORKERS' RIGHTS
01/05/2020

IMAGINATION: FROM JOHN LENNON TO POPE FRANCIS
27/04/2020

TIME TO PUT GLOBAL CONFLICTS ON LOCK-DOWN
11/04/2020

COVID-19: AFRICA'S PENDING CATASTROPHE
​30/03/2020

WAS THE ATTACK ON DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES JUSTIFIED?
27/03/2020

JOHNSON'S CONSERVATISM: PRAGMATISM BEATS IDEOLOGY
18/03/2020

CAMEROON: WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE
13/03/2020

GUNS & BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
​06/03/2020

LABOUR'S LEADERSHIP ELECTION: VIRTUE SIGNALLING OR REAL CHANGE?
27/02/2020

'GLOBAL BRITAIN' IN AN AGE OF IMPUNITY
20/02/2020

CATHOLICISM & BRITISH POLITICS
15/02/2020

THE TRUMP-NETANYAHU PLAN: RECIPE FOR VIOLENCE?
05/02/2020

BREXIT DAY: REMAIN LOST BUT WHO WON?
30/01/2020

ISLAM & DEMOCRACY IN SISI'S EGYPT
20/01/2020

TRUMP & IRAN: WHAT NEXT?
17/01/2020

METRO-MAYORS & THE LABOUR PARTY
08/01/2020

WINDS OF CHANGE: LEARNING FROM THE 1960s
01/01/2020

RELIGION IN 2019: DECLINING OR REVIVING?
​26/12/2019

COMPLICITY WITH TURKEY'S POLICE-STATE
​17/12/2019

TRIDENT: THE DOG THAT DIDN'T BARK
10/12/2019

FOR ANTI-ZIONISM READ ANTI-SEMITISM?
​04/12/2019

THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS TO LONE-WOLF TERRORISM
02/12/2O19

 
​MANIFESTOS: MANIFESTLY BIN-READY?
27/11/2019

ENGLISH NATIONALISM: THE GENIE IN THE BREXIT BOTTLE?
21/11/2019

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: BELLWETHER OF HUMAN RIGHTS
14/11/2019

WHY IS THE HOME OFFICE SO INHUMANE?
​06/11/2019

WHAT NEXT FOR DA'ESH & AL-QAIDA?
30/10/2019

WHY MR .CORBYN SHOULD DEPART...NOW
14/10/2019

GUILT, SHAME & THE BLAME GAME
09/10/2019

BREXIT CHESS:  QUEEN'S GAMBIT OPENING MOVE?
02/10/2019

SUPREME COURT:  WHY WERE WE SURPRISED?
25/09/2019

POPE FRANCIS: ANTIDOTE TO POPULISM?
24/09/2019

BOTS, CYBORGS & TROLL FARMS
16/09/2019

BREXIT: THE THEATRE OF SELF-DELUSION & MENDACITY
03/09/2019

THE ART OF SAVING THE OCEANS
01/09/2019

NIGERIA'S TERRORIST THREAT
27/08/2019

THE BLIND HEDGEHOG: ALMOST A DRAMA-DOC?
21/08/2019

IRELAND'S NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL
13/08/2019

TRUMP, GUNS & NATIONALISM
07/08/2019

SURVEYING SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM
03/08/2019

A LITTLE MOONSHINE IN JULY
28/07/2019

TRUMP: IS ANYTHING WORSE THAN RACISM?
​18/07/2019

OUR NEXT - TRICKSTER - PRIME MINISTER
​11/07/2019

HOW TO START A WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
04/07/2019

NEVER GIVE UP
22/06/2019

DOES LYING MATTER?
12/06/2019

TRUMP, THE MAYOR  & FASCISM
05/06/2019

THAT'S LONDON FOR YOU
​03/06/2019

HAS THE WEST LOST THE PLOT?
29/05/19

A US-IRAN WAR?  DON'T ASK THE " MOUSTACHE"
18/05/2019

​
RAMADAN MUBARAK
15/05/2019

SOUTH AFRICA'S ELECTIONS: MODEST HOPES
07/05/2019

TRUMP VISIT: GUILT BY ASSOCIATION?
01/05/2019

SAVING THE PLANET: VIRTUE BY ASSOCIATION?
25/04/2019

PASSIONTIDE &     
 THE TIDE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING 
19/04/2019

LIBYA: THE DANGER OF ANARCHY
17/04/2019

THE EU: OBITUARY or ELEGY? 
12/04/2019

THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE 6 APRIL 1994: LEST WE FORGET
05/04/19

FOOD
29/03/2019

BREXIT AGREEMENT:  MAY IS OUT?
22/03/19

BREXIT: FORWARD TO THE PAST?
13/03/19

WHITHER BRITISH POLITICS?
O6/03/2019

VICE: HOW TO ACCUMULATE POWER
26/02/2019

NIGERIA'S ELECTIONS: DOES RELIGION MATTER?
15/02/2019

BREXIT: CONSENSUS ON SELF-HARM?
10/02/2019

IRAN'S REVOLUTION: 40 YEARS ON
03/02/2019

ZIMBABWE: LOOK BACK IN SORROW
​26/01/19

BREXIT: INGLORIOUS REVOLUTION?
17/01/2019

BREXIT: BRING ON THE UNICORNS
​09/01/2019

CHRISTIANOPHOBIA
01/01/2019

FRAMING HAMAS
20/12/2018

THE BIG RED CHINA MODEL
16/12/2018

BREXIT: WHERE TO NOW?
09/12/2018

TURKEY'S RED NOTICES
04/12/2018

FROM RUSSIA WITH MALICE
28/11/2018

NUNS & SEXUAL TRAFFICKING
21/11/2018

BEYOND IDENTITY POLITICS: IN SEARCH OF EMPATHY
14/11/2018

UNDER THE WIRE: TO ASSAD'S SLAUGHTERHOUSE
06/11/2018

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
31/10/2018

THE VATICAN & CHINA: SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL?
​28/10/2018

BREXIT: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
18/10/2018

OSCAR ROMERO: LONG WALK TO SAINTHOOD
12/10/2018

BREXIT: TORIES & EUROPEAN COURTS
​01/10/2018

BREXIT: THE END-GAME
22/09/2018

THE WORLD'S WORST - AVOIDABLE - DISASTER 
20/09/2018

TRUMP'S THIRTY YEARS WAR
12/09/2018

THE ARCHBISHOP & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
05/09.2018

REDS UNDER THE ALTAR?
01/09/2018

LEO THE POPE TO LEO THE TAOISEACH
24/08/2018

BREXIT & DEMOCRACY
06/08/2018

BREXIT: WHO LOSES, WHERE & WHY?
28/07/2018

IS RELIGION INHERENTLY VIOLENT?
​16/07/2018

WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE?
30/06/2018

DONALD: ANCIENT OR MODERN?
25/06/2018

DONALD AND/OR JESUS?
16/06/2018

BREXIT: FROM RULE-TAKER TO MYTH-MAKER?
11/06/2018

LETTER TO BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
​06/06/2018

DOOMSDAY & DONALD
02/06/2018

INTEGRATION: TWO-WAY STREET OR SLIP-ROAD?
26/05/2018

WILL 14 MAY BE ISRAEL'S SHARPEVILLE?
21/05/2018

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: FROM COFFINS TO CAKES
02/05/2018

THE EUROPEAN UNION HEDGEHOG DIRECTIVE
27/04/2018

WINDRUSH: MINISTERIAL BUNGLING OR MORAL BANKRUPTCY?
​22/04/2018

IS TRUMP PROMOTING AN ISRAEL-IRAN WAR?
18/04/2018

​ TWO LIVES: WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA
13/04/2018

​ON BECOMING A TERRORIST SYMPATHISER 
6/04/2018​

ON THE MURDER OF ADVERSARIES
18/03/2018​

THE GREAT COLONIALISM CONTROVERSY
​07/02/2018

GOODBYE MR. ZUMA
​05/02/2018

REFLECTIONS ON THE ANDERSON REPORT
​10/01/2018

THE POISONOUS LEGACY OF RADKO MLADIC
​12/12/2017

Huffington Post / HuffPost UK

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Springtime for Populism

12/09/16

One Night in Turkey

18/07/16

From Curveball to Chilcot

11/07/16

Christian Responsibility for BREXIT

27/06/16

On Destroying Democracy

21/06/16

Ian Linden | The Guardian

Faith is Strong in Healthcare

12/04/11

What is Religion Good For?

26/11/10

Multi-faith Moan About Youth is Unjustified

07/10/10

The Debate is Lacking Facts

22/09/10