There is a strange irony to the violence taking place in the UK.

Anyone who has applied for a job recently will have noticed certain words and acronyms that were not necessarily common before the coronavirus lockdowns.

When Sir Keir Starmer told an elated group of Labour Party faithful in the early hours of Friday, “We did it. Change begins now,” he did so in the knowledge that despite a landslide victory in the UK general election, he remains anything but safe.

Take a moment, think back to when you were a child, when you would wake up in the morning, your mum or dad yelling through the house to get up — “you’re late for school and breakfast is on the table.”

There is no avoiding the fact that, in recent years, the number of migrants on the move has been on the increase.

A combination of war, civil unrest and abject poverty have pushed many thousands to take enormous risks in the hope of finding a better life in another country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday apologized for attending a party in the gardens of 10 Downing Street in London in May 2020. He then went on to say that he was unaware it was a party and simply thought the approximately 40 people were attending a work event.

For as long as I can remember, there has been talk of saving the planet — it is nothing new.
Now, in a cold, gray and rather damp Glasgow, the world’s leaders are yet again speaking about the same subject.

When I went to Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007 it was clear even then that Western forces in the country had no end plan.