by Jim Aitken For Ward Jalal Al- Shaikh Khalil The whole world saw her silhouettedancing through the flames of a school.There was something ethereal,some strange scene from... Continue reading
Return to previous page
Page 3
Palestine refugees enforced to flee Hamad quarter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, after receiving an evacuation warning from Israeli army. Commons image. by Jim Aitken MacCaig... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken A headline in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th of April this year read, ’Migrants are handed life jackets by the French.’ This implied... Continue reading
Available here by Jim Aitken It is a ghastly thing to admit but we have become almost inured to the cruelty and barbarism meted out to the... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken The Scots word ootlin refers to someone deemed a stranger, an outcast, a despised or neglected member of a family. It is an awful... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken Malibu Mansionslook a bit like Gaza nowbut with more burnt cars. Continue reading
May Day is Jackie Kay’s latest poetry collection. It is addressed to her parents, Helen and John Kay, who adopted her as a baby. They had both... Continue reading
Soil and Soul was first published in 2001 and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking... Continue reading
Jim Aitken introduces Sapling and Wood by David Betteridge, available here A sapling, as we know, is a young tree. If this young tree manages to grow... Continue reading
The current horror in Gaza is just the latest in a long line of such horrors. The present incursion is called Operation Swords of Iron. The metallurgical... Continue reading
Showing 21–30 of 57 posts