There has been a lot said and written about people having to work from home during this Covid-19 pandemic. Many companies are having to put measures in place to allow this, and having to find new ways of working. But what about the people that work for these companies? And, particularly, what about those who …
Remembering the Lockerbie Bombing
Thirty years ago today, Pan Am Flight 103 was en route from London to New York with 259 people on board. A bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated, and as the plane fell parts of it landed on the small market town of Lockerbie, killing 11 people on the ground. This was pre-Al Qaeda, pre-9/11, …
How can we end hate?
As part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, I thought I'd share a post I wrote some time ago... I visited Auschwitz in 2014: what I saw there still haunts me to this day. I've visited the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, and I've visited the Holocaust centre in Oslo. I'm …
Memories of a visit to Auschwitz
This is National Hate Crime Week in the UK, and yesterday I attended an awareness session run by the local police force, with various guest speakers, including Eva Clarke, a Holocaust survivor. Her parents were initially imprisoned in Terezin, then moved to Auschwitz and Eva was born as her mother arrived at Mauthausen in April …